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Yunlin Xu

Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Established · publishing since 1995
Nuclear reactor physics and engineeringNuclear Materials and PropertiesNuclear Physics and ApplicationsGraphite, nuclear technology, radiation studiesNuclear Engineering Thermal-Hydraulics

Publications

127

Citations

1,072

Est. group size

~5

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

32

Publishing since 1995

Research summary
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Yunlin Xu works on nuclear reactor physics and engineering, focusing on developing and improving computational methods for simulating how neutrons move and interact inside nuclear reactor cores (a process called neutron transport). This includes building faster, more parallelized simulation codes (such as PANDAS-MOC), improving numerical methods for reactor core modeling, and coupling neutron behavior with fuel and thermal-hydraulic (heat and fluid flow) simulations. Prospective students would likely work on high-performance computing methods applied to nuclear reactor simulation and fuel behavior modeling.

Neutron transport simulation methodsParallel/high-performance computing for reactor codesNuclear reactor core modeling and couplingNuclear fuel behavior and material propertiesNumerical methods for reactor physics

Publication output grew steadily from 2017 through a peak around 2021-2023, then has tapered off in the most recent two years.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 7.6/year recently
2017: 5 publications172018: 4 publications182019: 7 publications192020: 8 publications202021: 11 publications11212022: 11 publications11222023: 11 publications11232024: 8 publications242025: 6 publications252026: 2 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Annals of Nuclear Energy×13
  • Nuclear Science and Engineering×11
  • SSRN Electronic Journal×9
  • Transactions of the American Nuclear Society×9
  • Progress in Nuclear Energy×4
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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