DR SIMON MERTON

Summary

Office: 491 Royal School of Mines

Tel: +44 (0)20 759 47325 (internal: 47325)

Email: simon.merton05@imperial.ac.uk

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Deterministic neutron transport
• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Petrov-Galerkin methods
• Subgrid methods for computational radiation transport
• Adjoint-based error measures
• Reactor Physics

Bibliography

• PhD Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Computational Radiation Transport, Applied Modelling and Computation Group, Imperial College London, 2005 - 2012
• MPhys Physics with Space Science and Systems, University of Kent, Canterbury 1995 - 2000

Publications

• S. R. Merton, A.G. Buchan, C. C. Pain, R. P. Smedley-Stevenson: Non-Linear Discontinuous Methods for Improving the Solution of the Boltzmann Transport Equation. in preparation for Journal of Computational Physics, September 2012
• S. R. Merton, A.G. Buchan, C. C. Pain, R. P. Smedley-Stevenson: Adjoint Eigenvalue Correction for Elliptic and Hyperbolic Neutron Transport Problems. Submiited to Progress in Nuclear Energy, April 2012
• S. R. Merton, A.G. Buchan, C. C. Pain, R. P. Smedley-Stevenson: An Adjoint-Based Method for Improving Computational Estimates of a Functional Obtained from the Solution of the Boltzmann Transport Equation. Annals of Nuclear Energy, Vol 54, pp 1-10, 2013
• A. G. Buchan, S. R. Merton, C.C. Pain, R.P. Smedley-Stevenson: Riemann Boundary Conditions for the Boltzmann Transport Equation using Arbitrary Angular Approximations, Annals of Nuclear Energy, Vol 38, pp 1186-1195, 2011
• A. G. Buchan, A. C. Candy, S. R. Merton, C. C. Pain, M. D. Eaton, J.I. Hadi, A. J. H. Goddard, R. P. Smedley-Stevenson: The Inner Element Sub-Grid Scale Finite Element Method for the Boltzmann Transport Equation. Nuclear Science and Enineering, Vol 164, pp. 105-121, 2010
• S. R. Merton, C. C. Pain, R. P. Smedley-Stevenson, A.G. Buchan, M.D. Eaton: Optimal Discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin Methods for the Boltzmann Transport Equation with Arbitrary Discretisation in Angle. Annals of Nuclear Energy,Vol 35, Issue 9, pp. 1741-1759, 2008

Conferences Attended

• M&C 2013, Sun Valley, Idaho, USA, May 2013
• PHYSOR 2012, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, April 2012
• ICTT-22, Portland, Oregon, USA, September 2011
• M&C 2011, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2011
• PHYSOR 2010, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, May 2010
• SERCO Easter Conference, Harwell, UK, April 2010
• M&C 2009, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA, May 2009
• MCNEG 2009, St Catherines College, Oxford, UK, March 2009
• MCNEG 2007, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, UK, March 2007
• MAFELAP 2006, Brunel Institute of Computational Mathematics, Brunel, UK, June 2006
• MCNEG 2006, City University, London, UK, May 2006
• ICTT-17, Imperial College London, UK, June 2001