Benoit Forget
Assistant
Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Email: bforget@mit.edu
Phone: 617-253-1655
Fax: 617-258-8863
MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
77 Massachusetts Avenue, 24-214
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006
MS, École Polytechnique de Montréal, 2003
B.S., École Polytechnique de Montréal, 2003
Research
Interests
Computational transport theory, Reactor physics and Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Awards and Honors
- NSERC ES D2, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of
Canada (2004-06)
- George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Fellowship
(2003-06)
- Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Financial Group Scholarship, campaign
“Un Monde de Projets" (2002)
- Hydro-Québec Nuclear Engineering Scholarship (2001-03)
- R.J. Stevens Engineering Scholarship, Tembec Inc. (1996-2002)
- Governor General of Canada Bronze Medal Recipient (1996)
- Tembec Gold Medal (1996)
- National Book Award and Scholarship of the University of Toronto
(1996)
Publications
Refereed Journal Publications
- F. Rahnema, S. Douglass and B.
Forget, “Generalized Energy Condensation Theory,” Nucl. Sci. Eng., Accepted January (2008).
- B. Forget and F. Rahnema, “COMET
Solutions to the 3-D C5G7 MOX Benchmark Problem,” Prog. Nucl. Energy, 48 (2006).
- B. Forget, F. Rahnema and S.W. Mosher,
“A Heterogeneous Coarse Mesh Solution for the 2-D NEA C5G7 MOX Benchmark
Problem,” Prog. Nucl. Energy, 45, 2-4, (2004).
Refereed
Conference Proceedings
- B. Forget, M. Asgari, R.M. Ferrer and S. Bays, “The Importance
of the (n,gamma) Cm-247 Evaluation on Neutron Emission in Fast Reactor
Analysis”, American Nuclear Society, Winter Meeting, Washington, DC, November 2007.
- R.M. Ferrer, S.Bays, M. Asgari and B. Forget “Title,”
GLOBAL-2007: Advanced Nuclear Fuel Cycles and Systems, Boise, ID, 2007.
- B. Forget and F. Rahnema “A Spectral Unfolding Method,” Trans.
Am. Nucl. Soc., 96
(2007).
- B. Forget and F. Rahnema, “New Eigenvalue Evaluation Technique
in the Heterogeneous Coarse Mesh Transport Method,” Transactions of the
American Nuclear Society, 93,
511 (2005).
- B. Forget and F. Rahnema, “3-D Monte Carlo Based Heterogeneous
Coarse Mesh Transport Method,” International Topical Meeting on Mathematics
and Computations, Avignon, France,
September 12-15, (2005). (3rd place: Best Student Paper)
Pending Patent
- B. Forget and F. Rahnema, “Boundary Adjusted Critical Spectrum
Methodology for Reactor Lattice Depletion”, initial stages of application (2005).
