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Publié le 14 avril 2022
  • A. Jinaphanh, A. Zoia, Reactor Period Calculations by Monte Carlo Methods: Analysis of the SPERT III E-core Reactivity Excursions. In Proceedings of Physor22.
  • H. Belanger, D. Mancusi, A. Zoia, Variance Reduction Techniques for Monte Carlo Neutron Noise Simulations. In Proceedings of Physor22.
  • D. Mancusi, M. Faucher, A. Zoia, Monte Carlo simulations of the SPERT III E-core transient experiments, Eur. Phys. J. Plus. 137:127 (2022).
  • H. Belanger, D. Mancusi, A. Zoia, Exact weight cancellation in Monte Carlo eigenvalue transport problems, Phys. Rev. E 104, 015306 (2021).
  • D. Mancusi, A. Zoia, Zero-variance schemes for kinetic Monte Carlo simulations, Eur. Phys. J. Plus 135:401 (2020).
  • C. Demazière, A. Rouchon, and A. Zoia, Understanding the neutron noise induced by fuel assembly vibration in linear theory, in Proc. M&C21, Raleigh, USA (2021).
  • H. Belanger, D. Mancusi, and A. Zoia, Solving eigenvalue transport problems with negative weights and regional cancellation, in Proc. M&C21, Raleigh, USA (2021).
  • P. Vinai, H. Yi, A. Mylonakis, C. Demazière, B. Gasse, A. Rouchon, A. Zoia, A. Vidal-Ferràndiz, D. Ginestar, G. Verdú, and T. Yamamoto, Comparison of neutron noise solvers based on numerical benchmarks in a 2-D simplified UOX fuel assembly, in Proc. M&C21, Raleigh, USA (2021).
  • A. Zoia, A. Rouchon, B. Gasse, C. Demazière, P. Vinai, Analysis of the neutron noise induced by fuel assembly vibrations, Annals of Nuclear Energy 154, 108061 (2021).
  • H. Belanger, D. Mancusi, and A. Zoia, Review of Monte Carlo methods for particle transport in continuously-varying media, Eur. Phys. J. Plus 135:877 (2020).
  • P. Boulard, JC Jaboulay, JM Martinez, A. Zoia, Contribution of thermal-hydraulics simulation to criticality analysis of fuel debris bed during severe accident, in Proceedings of Physor2020, Cambridge, UK (2020).
  • D. Mancusi, A. Zoia, Towards zero-variance schemes for kinetic Monte Carlo simulations, in Proceedings of Physor2020, Cambridge, UK (2020).
  • A. Rouchon, M. Vadée Le Brun and A. Zoia, Analysis and comparison of APOLLO3® and TRIPOLI-4® neutron noise solvers, in Proc. PHYSOR 2020, Cambridge, United Kingdom, March 29th – April 2nd (2020).
  • A. Rouchon, W. Jarrah, A Zoia, The new neutron noise solver of the Monte Carlo code TRIPOLI-4, in Proceedings of the M&C2019 conference, Portland, Oregon (2019).
  • P. Boulard, JC. Jaboulay, JM. Martinez, A. Zoia, Simulation of transients in fuel-water mixtures, in Proceedings of the ICAPP2019 conference, Juan-les-pins, France (2019).
  • Faucher, M., Mancusi, D., Zoia, A., Ferraro, D., Garcia, et al., Proceedings of the ICAPP 2019 conference. Juan-les-Pins, France (2019).
  • Ferraro, D., Faucher, M., Mancusi, D., Zoia, A., Valtavirta, V., Leppänen, J., Sanchez Espinoza, V. Serpent and TRIPOLI-4® transient calculations comparisons for several reactivity insertion scenarios in a 3D PWR minicore benchmark, Proceedings of the M&C 2019 conference. Portland, Oregon, USA (2019).
  • M. Faucher, D. Mancusi, A. Zoia, Variance-reduction methods for Monte Carlo kinetic simulation, in Proceedings of the M&C 2019 conference, Portland, Oregon, USA (2019)
  • F Damian, A Collin, N Gerard-Castaing, C Jouglard, A Zoia, Validation of APOLLO2 toward Monte Carlo TRIPOLI-4 throughout irradiation: transposition of the process on critical fuel assembly configurations, Physor2018, Cancun, Mexico (2018).
  • Y Nauchi, P Blaise, C Jouanne, A Zoia, Monte Carlo calculation of kinetic parameters to deduce pilot rod worth of FUBILA MOX coresPhysor2018, Cancun, Mexico (2018).
  • M. Faucher, D. Mancusi, A. Zoia, New kinetic simulation capabilities for Tripoli-4: methods and applications, Ann. Nucl. Energy 120, 74-88 (2018).
  • N. Terranova, G. Truchet, I. Zmijarevic, A. Zoia, Adjoint neutron flux calculations with Tripoli-4®: Verification and comparison to deterministic codes, Ann. Nucl. Energy 114, 136-148 (2018).
  • J.-C. Jaboulay et al., EPJ Web of Conferences 153, 02008 (2017).
  • A. Rouchon, A. Zoia, R. Sanchez, A new Monte Carlo method for neutron noise calculations in the frequency domain, Ann. Nucl. Energy 102, 465-475 (2017).
  • A. Zoia, Y. Nauchi, E. Brun, C. Jouanne, Monte Carlo analysis of the CROCUS benchmark, Ann. Nucl. Energy 96, 377-388 (2016).
  • A. Zoia, E. Brun, Reactor physics calculations of the SPERT III E-core with TRIPOLI-4, Ann. Nucl. Energy 90, 71-82 (2016).
  • G. Truchet, P. Leconte, A. Santamarina, E. Brun, F. Damian, A. Zoia, Computing adjoint-weighted kinetics parameters in TRIPOLI-4, Ann. Nucl. Energy 85, 17-26 (2015).
  • A. Zoia, E. Brun, F. Damian, F. Malvagi, Monte Carlo methods for reactor period calculations, Ann. Nucl. Energy 75, 627 (2015).
  • A. Zoia, E. Brun, C. Jouanne, F. Malvagi, Doppler broadening of neutron elastic scattering kernel in TRIPOLI-4. Annals of Nuclear Energy. 54. 218-226 (2013).
  • A Zoia, E Brun, C Jouanne, F Malvagi, DBRC and WCM scattering kernels for TRIPOLI-4, version 9SNA+ MC 2013-Joint International Conference on Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications (2013).
  • Y. K. Lee and F.X Hugot, Calculation of the effective delayed neutron fraction by TRIPOLI-4 code for IPEN/mb-01 research reactor, M&C2011, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2011).
  • E. Dumonteil, C.M. Diop, Biases and Statistical Errors in Monte Carlo Burnup Calculations: An Unbiased Stochastic Scheme to Solve Boltzmann/Bateman Coupled Equations, Nucl. Sci. Eng. 167, 165-170 (2011).
  • E. Brun, E. Dumonteil, F. Malvagi, Systematic uncertainty due to statistics in Monte Carlo burnup codes : Application to a simple benchmark with TRIPOLI-4-D, Prog. Nucl. Sci. Techn. 2, 879-885 (2011).
  • F.X Hugot, Y. K. Lee, New display tool for the Monte-Carlo particle transport code TRIPOLI-4, SNA + Monte Carlo 2010, Tokyo, Japan (2010).
  • E. Dumonteil, C.M. Diop, Unbiased minimum variance estimator of a matrix exponential function. Application to Boltzmann/Bateman coupled equations solving with a Monte Carlo transport code. In Proceedings of the M&C 2009 conference.
  • Y.-K. Lee, Mesh tally of the TRIPOLI-4 Monte Carlo code, in Proceedings of Physor2008, Interlaken, Switzerland (2008).
  • Y-K Lee, Use of TRIPOLI-4.5 mesh tally to investigate power maps of the LEU-COMP-THERM-008 PWR critical lattices, M&C 2009.
  • F.-X. Hugot, Y.K. Lee, F. Malvagi, Recent R&D around the Monte Carlo TRIPOLI-4 criticality calculations, in Proceedings of Physor2008, Interlaken, Switzerland (2008).
  • F.-X. Hugot, Tools for criticality calculations with the Monte Carlo TRIPOLI-4 code, in Proceedings of Physor2008, Interlaken, Switzerland (2008).
  • Y.-K. Lee, JC. David and H. Carcreff, A Gamma Heating Calculation Methodology for Research Reactor Application, 5th Int. Topical Meeting on Research Reactor Fuel Management, RRFM 2001, Aachen, Germany, p. 147 (2001).