Richard Vasques

Western Washington University
, BH 225

Abstract

Nonclassical Particle Transport: Clouds, Movies, and Nuclear Reactors

What do Pebble Bed reactor cores have in common with animated movies? How is sunlight traveling through Earth's cloudy atmosphere related to neutron transport in BWRs? In this talk I will give an overview of the theory of Nonclassical Transport,developed to model transport in heterogeneous systems in which the distribution function for chord lengths between scattering centers is nonexponential. I will show how this approach can capture and preserve important physical aspects of certain random systems,enabling better mathematical and computational modeling of transport calculations in homogenized random media. Applications of this theory will be addressed, including rendering and animation of computer-generated imagery (CGI).