Dept. of Nuclear Engineering Oregon St. University 116 Radiation Center, A108 Corvallis, OR 97331-5902 (541) 737-7064 palmerts@engr.orst.edu

Research Interests

• Computational methods for radiation transport and diffusion
  
• Computational fluid dynamics
  
• Physics of nuclear reactors
  
• Numerical methods
  
• Algorithms for parallel computing
  

Selected Recent Publications

1. "A Point-Centered Diffusion Discretization for Unstructured Meshes in 3-D", to appear in the Proceedings of the Americal Nuclear Society's International Conference on Mathematics and Computations, Reactor Physics, and Environmental Analyses; April 30 - May 4, 1995, Portland, OR.
2. "A New Point-Centered Diffusion Differencing for Unstructured Meshes", Trans. Am. Nuc. Soc., 70. 155 (1994).
3. "Curvilinear Geometry Transport Discretizations in the Thick Diffusion Limit", Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Mathematical Methods and Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications, Karlsruhe, Germany, April 19-23, 1993. (with Marvin L. Adams)
4. "Analysis of Spherical Geometry Finite Element Transport Solutions in the Thick Diffusion Limit", Proc. ANS Topical Meeting, Advances in Mathematics, Computations, and Reactor Physics, April 28 - May 2, 1991, Pittsburgh, PA, Vol 5., Sec 21.1, pp. 4-1 through 4-11, (1991). (with Marvin L. Adams)

Scholarly Activities

• Member of American Nuclear Society
• Member of Tau Beta Pi
• Member of Alpha Nu Sigma