Benoit Forget

3.9k citations

160 papers · 2.8k · 2 hit papers · h-index 22

Impact in

Aerospace Engineering top 0.2%
- Nuclear reactor physics and engineering
- Nuclear Engineering Thermal-Hydraulics
Hardware and Architecture top 2%
- Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques

Papers in

Aerospace Engineering 150
- Nuclear reactor physics and engineering 148
- Nuclear Engineering Thermal-Hydraulics 4
Hardware and Architecture 10
- Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques 10

Co-authors: Kord S. Smith (76 shared papers)Paul K. Romano (20 shared papers)Bryan R. Herman (10 shared papers)Nicholas E. Horelik (6 shared papers)Adam G. Nelson (3 shared papers)Andrew R. Siegel (13 shared papers)Colin J. Josey (9 shared papers)Kathy Smith (1 shared paper)
Journals: Annals of Nuclear Energy (43 papers)Nuclear Science and Engineering (17 papers)Progress in Nuclear Energy (9 papers)Journal of Computational Physics (7 papers)Nuclear Technology (5 papers)
Partner nations: United States China United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Benoit Forget

150 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Benoit Forget's Hit Papers

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OpenMC: A state-of-the-art Monte Carlo code for research and development 2014 · 746 citations

What are hit papers?

Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

2014 Annals of Nuclear Energy
2012 Annals of Nuclear Energy

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1	OpenMC: A state-of-the-art Monte Carlo code for research and development Annals of Nuclear Energy ·Paul K. Romano, Nicholas E. Horelik, Bryan R. Herman, Adam G. Nelson, Benoit Forget, Kord S. Smith Hit paper breakdown →	2014	746
2	The OpenMC Monte Carlo particle transport code Annals of Nuclear Energy ·Paul K. Romano, Benoit Forget Hit paper breakdown →	2012	343
3	The OpenMOC method of characteristics neutral particle transport code Annals of Nuclear Energy ·William Boyd, Samuel Shaner, Lulu Li, Benoit Forget, Kord S. Smith	2014	123
4	Benchmark for evaluation and validation of reactor simulations (BEAVRS) OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) ·Nicholas E. Horelik, Bryan R. Herman, Benoit Forget, Kathy Smith	2013	103
5	Physics-informed reinforcement learning optimization of nuclear assembly design Nuclear Engineering and Design ·Majdi I. Radaideh, Isaac Wolverton, Joshua Joseph, James Tusar, Uuganbayar Otgonbaatar, Nicholas Roy, Benoit Forget, Koroush Shirvan	2020	55
6	Development of burnup methods and capabilities in Monte Carlo code RMC Annals of Nuclear Energy ·Ding She, Yuxuan Liu, Kan Wang, Ganglin Yu, Benoit Forget, Paul K. Romano, Kord S. Smith	2012	50
7	Direct Doppler broadening in Monte Carlo simulations using the multipole representation Annals of Nuclear Energy ·Benoit Forget, Sheng Hua Xu, Kord S. Smith	2013	46
8	Multigroup Cross-Section Generation with the OpenMC Monte Carlo Particle Transport Code Nuclear Technology ·William Boyd, Adam G. Nelson, Paul K. Romano, Samuel Shaner, Benoit Forget, Kord S. Smith	2019	39
9	Windowed multipole for cross section Doppler broadening Journal of Computational Physics ·Colin J. Josey, Pablo Ducru, Benoit Forget, Kord S. Smith	2015	37
10	Study of graphite reactivity worth on well-defined cores assembled on LR-0 reactor Annals of Nuclear Energy ·Michal Košťál, Vojtěch Rypar, Ján Milčák, Vlastimil Juříček, Evžen Losa, Benoit Forget, Sterling M. Harper	2015	36
11	Preliminary Coupling of the Monte Carlo Code OpenMC and the Multiphysics Object-Oriented Simulation Environment for Analyzing Doppler Feedback in Monte Carlo Simulations Nuclear Science and Engineering ·Matthew Shawn Ellis, Derek R. Gaston, Benoit Forget, Kord S. Smith	2016	34
12	Cumulative migration method for computing rigorous diffusion coefficients and transport cross sections from Monte Carlo Annals of Nuclear Energy ·Zhaoyuan Liu, Kord S. Smith, Benoit Forget, Javier Ortensi	2017	34
13	OpenMC: A State-of-the-Art Monte Carlo Code for Research and Development Paul K. Romano, Nicholas E. Horelik, Bryan R. Herman, Adam G. Nelson, Benoit Forget, Kord S. Smith	2014	29
14	Parallel Fission Bank Algorithms in Monte Carlo Criticality Calculations Nuclear Science and Engineering ·Paul K. Romano, Benoit Forget	2012	28
15	The Random Ray Method for neutral particle transport Journal of Computational Physics ·John Robert Tramm, Kord S. Smith, Benoit Forget, Andrew R. Siegel	2017	28
16	Progress toward Monte Carlo–thermal hydraulic coupling using low-order nonlinear diffusion acceleration methods Annals of Nuclear Energy ·Bryan R. Herman, Benoit Forget, Kord S. Smith	2014	27
17	Comparison of fast neutron spectra in graphite and FLINA salt inserted in well-defined core assembled in LR-0 reactor Annals of Nuclear Energy ·Michal Košťál, Martin Veškrna, František Cvachovec, Bohumil Jánský, Evžen Novák, Vojtěch Rypar, Ján Milčák, Evžen Losa	2015	27
18	Performance Analysis of a Reduced Data Movement Algorithm for Neutron Cross Section Data in Monte Carlo Simulations Lecture notes in computer science ·John Robert Tramm, Andrew R. Siegel, Benoit Forget, Colin J. Josey	2015	27
19	Monte Carlo power iteration: Entropy and spatial correlations Annals of Nuclear Energy ·Michel Nowak, Jilang Miao, Éric Dumonteil, Benoit Forget, A. Onillón, Kord S. Smith, Andrea Zoia	2016	27
20	Full core 3D simulation of the BEAVRS benchmark with OpenMOC Annals of Nuclear Energy ·Geoffrey Alexander Gunow, Benoit Forget, Kord S. Smith	2019	24

About Benoit Forget

Benoit Forget is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Hardware and Architecture, Radiation, Computational Mechanics and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, having authored 160 papers that have together received 2.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Nuclear reactor physics and engineering (148 papers), Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (10 papers), Radiative Heat Transfer Studies (8 papers), Nuclear Physics and Applications (6 papers), Nuclear physics research studies (5 papers), Nuclear Engineering Thermal-Hydraulics (4 papers), Matrix Theory and Algorithms (2 papers) and Nuclear and radioactivity studies (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Aerospace Engineering (2.3k citations), Hardware and Architecture (237 citations), Radiation (89 citations), Materials Chemistry (212 citations) and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (55 citations). Benoit Forget has collaborated with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Kord S. Smith, Paul K. Romano, Bryan R. Herman, Nicholas E. Horelik, Adam G. Nelson, Andrew R. Siegel, Colin J. Josey, Kathy Smith, Lulu Li and John Robert Tramm. Their work appears in journals such as Annals of Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Science and Engineering, Progress in Nuclear Energy, Journal of Computational Physics and Nuclear Technology.

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