Benoit Forget

3.6k citations

149 papers · 2.5k · 2 hit papers · h-index 21

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Radiation top 0.2%
- Nuclear Physics and Applications
- Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies
Aerospace Engineering top 0.2%
- Nuclear reactor physics and engineering
- Nuclear Engineering Thermal-Hydraulics

Papers in

Aerospace Engineering 125
- Nuclear reactor physics and engineering 123
Materials Chemistry 83
- Nuclear Materials and Properties 57
- Graphite, nuclear technology, radiation studies 25
- Fusion materials and technologies 6

Co-authors: Kord Smith (75 shared papers)Paul Romano (22 shared papers)Bryan Herman (9 shared papers)Nicholas E. Horelik (6 shared papers)Adam Nelson (3 shared papers)Andrew Siegel (14 shared papers)Kathy Smith (1 shared paper)Lulu Li (2 shared papers)
Journals: Annals of Nuclear Energy (43 papers)Nuclear Science and Engineering (14 papers)Progress in Nuclear Energy (9 papers)Journal of Computational Physics (7 papers)Nuclear Technology (5 papers)
Partner nations: United States China United Arab Emirates

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Benoit Forget

138 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Benoit Forget's Hit Papers

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OpenMC: A state-of-the-art Monte Carlo code for research and development 2014 · 610 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

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 Romano, Nicholas E. Horelik, Bryan Herman, Adam Nelson, Benoit Forget, Kord Smith Hit paper breakdown →	2014	610
2	The OpenMC Monte Carlo particle transport code Annals of Nuclear Energy ·Paul Romano, Benoit Forget Hit paper breakdown →	2012	309
3	The OpenMOC method of characteristics neutral particle transport code Annals of Nuclear Energy ·William Boyd, Samuel Shaner, Lulu Li, Benoit Forget, Kord Smith	2014	115
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 Herman, Benoit Forget, Kathy Smith	2013	101
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	49
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 Romano, Kord Smith	2012	48
7	Direct Doppler broadening in Monte Carlo simulations using the multipole representation Annals of Nuclear Energy ·Benoit Forget, Sheng Xu, Kord Smith	2013	43
8	Windowed multipole for cross section Doppler broadening Journal of Computational Physics ·Colin Josey, Pablo Ducru, Benoit Forget, Kord Smith	2015	35
9	Multigroup Cross-Section Generation with the OpenMC Monte Carlo Particle Transport Code Nuclear Technology ·William Boyd, Adam Nelson, Paul Romano, Samuel Shaner, Benoit Forget, Kord Smith	2019	35
10	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 Gaston, Benoit Forget, Kord Smith	2016	33
11	Cumulative migration method for computing rigorous diffusion coefficients and transport cross sections from Monte Carlo Annals of Nuclear Energy ·Zhaoyuan Liu, Kord Smith, Benoit Forget, Javier Ortensi	2017	31
12	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 Harper	2015	28
13	Parallel Fission Bank Algorithms in Monte Carlo Criticality Calculations Nuclear Science and Engineering ·Paul Romano, Benoit Forget	2012	28
14	Monte Carlo power iteration: Entropy and spatial correlations Annals of Nuclear Energy ·Michel Nowak, Jilang Miao, Éric Dumonteil, Benoit Forget, A. Onillón, Kord Smith, Andrea Zoia	2016	26
15	Progress toward Monte Carlo–thermal hydraulic coupling using low-order nonlinear diffusion acceleration methods Annals of Nuclear Energy ·Bryan Herman, Benoit Forget, Kord Smith	2014	26
16	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, Filip Mravec, Zdeněk Matěj, Jiří Rejchrt, Benoit Forget, Sterling Harper	2015	26
17	OpenMC: A State-of-the-Art Monte Carlo Code for Research and Development Paul Romano, Nicholas E. Horelik, Bryan Herman, Adam Nelson, Benoit Forget, Kord Smith	2014	26
18	Challenges in the development of high-fidelity LWR core neutronics tools OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) ·Kristin Smith, Benoit Forget	2013	24
19	Full core 3D simulation of the BEAVRS benchmark with OpenMOC Annals of Nuclear Energy ·Geoffrey Alexander Gunow, Benoit Forget, Kord Smith	2019	23
20	Multi-core performance studies of a Monte Carlo neutron transport code The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications ·Andrew Siegel, Kord Smith, Paul Romano, Benoit Forget, Kyle Gerard Felker	2013	22

About Benoit Forget

Benoit Forget is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Radiation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Computational Mechanics, having authored 149 papers that have together received 2.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Nuclear reactor physics and engineering (123 papers), Nuclear Physics and Applications (71 papers), Nuclear Materials and Properties (57 papers), Graphite, nuclear technology, radiation studies (25 papers), Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies (9 papers), Magnetic confinement fusion research (8 papers), Nuclear and radioactivity studies (6 papers) and Fusion materials and technologies (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Radiation (1.3k citations), Aerospace Engineering (2.1k citations), Materials Chemistry (1.6k citations), Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (143 citations) and Hardware and Architecture (100 citations). Benoit Forget has collaborated with scholars based in United States, China and United Arab Emirates. Frequent co-authors include Kord Smith, Paul Romano, Bryan Herman, Nicholas E. Horelik, Adam Nelson, Andrew Siegel, Kathy Smith, Lulu Li, John Tramm and Sheng Xu. 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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