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Edward W. Larsen is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with a particular emphasis on nuclear reactor physics and engineering, advanced numerical methods in computational mathematics, nuclear physics and applications, nuclear materials and properties, computational fluid dynamics and aerodynamics, gas dynamics and kinetic theory, and probabilistic and robust engineering design.

Larsen has contributed to fields such as aerospace engineering, computational mechanics, materials chemistry, radiation, and applied mathematics. These subfields reflect a multidisciplinary approach by integrating core engineering principles with applied computational and physical sciences.

The researcher has published extensively in venues including Nuclear Science and Engineering, EPJ Web of Conferences, the Journal of Nuclear Engineering, and the Journal of Computational and Theoretical Transport. The high frequency of publications in Nuclear Science and Engineering highlights a specialized engagement with topics relevant to nuclear science and its computational techniques.

Recent publications by Larsen and collaborators include:

  • The Stability of Linear Diffusion Acceleration Relative to CMFD (2021), published in Journal of Nuclear Engineering
  • The NILO-CMFD Method for Iteratively Solving Coupled Neutron Transport-Thermal Hydraulics Problems (2022), published in Nuclear Science and Engineering
  • A ROBUST SECOND-ORDER MULTIPLE BALANCE METHOD FOR TIME-DEPENDENT NEUTRON TRANSPORT SIMULATIONS (2021), published in EPJ Web of Conferences
  • Asymptotic Diffusion Limits of the Multigroup Neutron Transport Equations (2022), published in Nuclear Science and Engineering
  • SP3 Limit of the 2D/1D Transport Equations with Varying Degrees of Angular Coupling (2020), published in Journal of Computational and Theoretical Transport

They have collaborated frequently with other researchers, including Brendan Kochunas, Nickolas Adamowicz, Annalisa Manera, Ilham Variansyah, and William R. Martin. The collaboration record indicates a network of coauthors engaged in overlapping fields of neutron transport and nuclear engineering computations.

Best Publications

  • Fast iterative methods for discrete-ordinates particle transport calculations

    Marvin L. Adams;Edward W. Larsen

  • A method for incorporating organ motion due to breathing into 3D dose calculations

    Anthony E. Lujan;Edward W. Larsen;James M. Balter;Randall K. Ten Haken

  • Asymptotic solution of neutron transport problems for small mean free paths

    Edward W. Larsen;Joseph B. Keller

  • Asymptotic solutions of numerical transport problems in optically thick, diffusive regimes II

    Edward W larsen;J. E. Morel

  • Light transport in biological tissue based on the simplified spherical harmonics equations

    Alexander D. Klose;Edward W. Larsen

  • UNCONDITIONALLY STABLE DIFFUSION-SYNTHETIC ACCELERATION METHODS FOR THE SLAB GEOMETRY DISCRETE ORDINATES EQUATIONS. PART I: THEORY.

    Edward W. Larsen

  • Simplified P N approximations to the equations of radiative heat transfer and applications

    Edward W. Larsen;Guido Thömmes;Axel Klar;Mohammed Seaïd

  • The Simplified P3 Approximation

    Patrick S. Brantley;Edward W. Larsen

  • Asymptotic Derivation of the Multigroup P1 and Simplified PN Equations with Anisotropic Scattering

    Edward W. Larsen;J. E. Morel;John M. McGhee

  • Benchmark results for particle transport in a binary Markov statistical medium

    M. L. Adams;Edward W. Larsen;G. C. Pomraning

  • Asymptotic analysis of radiative transfer problems

    E.W. Larsen;G.C. Pomraning;V.C. Badham

  • Stability and accuracy of 3D neutron transport simulations using the 2D/1D method in MPACT

    Benjamin Collins;Shane Stimpson;Blake W. Kelley;Mitchell T. H. Young

  • Computational Efficiency of Numerical Methods for the Multigroup, Discrete-Ordinates Neutron Transport Equations: The Slab Geometry Case

    R. E. Alcouffe;E. W. Larsen;W. F. Miller;B. R. Wienke

  • On the spectrum of the linear transport operator

    Edward W. Larsen;Paul F. Zweifel

  • A numerical method for one-group slab-geometry discrete ordinates problems with no spatial truncation error

    R.C. De Barros;E.W. Larsen

  • A spectral nodal method for one-group X,Y-geometry discrete ordinates problems

    Ricardo C. De Barros;Edward W. Larsen

  • Neutron transport and diffusion in inhomogeneous media. I

    Edward W. Larsen

  • Advances in Discrete-Ordinates Methodology

    Edward W. Larsen;Jim E. Morel

  • An optimally diffusive Coarse Mesh Finite Difference method to accelerate neutron transport calculations

    Ang Zhu;Michael Jarrett;Yunlin Xu;Brendan Kochunas

  • Diffusion-synthetic acceleration methods for discrete-ordinates problems

    Edward W. Larsen

  • Discretization methods for one-dimensional Fokker-Planck operators

    E.W Larsen;C.D Levermore;G.C Pomraning;G.C Pomraning;J.G Sanderson

Frequent Co-Authors

William Martin
William Martin Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Axel Klar
Axel Klar Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Randall K. Ten Haken
Randall K. Ten Haken University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Lori J. Pierce
Lori J. Pierce University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Lawrence Rauchwerger
Lawrence Rauchwerger University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nancy M. Amato
Nancy M. Amato University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Quentin F. Stout
Quentin F. Stout University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Bani K. Mallick
Bani K. Mallick Texas A&M University
Tamas I. Gombosi
Tamas I. Gombosi University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Katsuyo Thornton
Katsuyo Thornton University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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