Bio

​B.S. Marine Engineering, US Merchant Marine Academy (Kings Point), 1959​M.S. Nuclear Science and Engineering, Columbia University, 1963​Ph.D. Nuclear Science and Engineering, Columbia University, 1967

Awards

  • U.S. Department of Energy: Ernest O. Lawrence Memorial Award 1990
  • National Academy of Engineering: Member Elected 2007
  • American Nuclear Society: Glenn T. Seaborg Medal 2002
  • American Nuclear Society: Eugene P. Wigner Reactor Physicist Award 1999
  • American Nuclear Society: Arthur Holly Compton Award 1998
  • American Nuclear Society: Mark Mills Award 1967
  • American Nuclear Society: Fellow Elected 1978
  • American Society for Engineering Education: Glenn Murphy Award 1988
  • American Physical Society: Fellow Elected 1982
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science: Fellow Elected 1986

Research Interests

  • Computation Materials Science
  • Fluid Mechanics

Selected Publications

  • “Homogenized Multigroup and Energy-Dependent Diffusion Equations as Asymptotic Approximations to the Boltzmann Equation,” Transactions . American Nuclear Society, 89, 313-316 (2003). J. Dorning
  • “Time-Asymptotic Wave Propagation in Collisionless Plasmas,” Physical Review E, 68, No. 2, 026406: 1-31 (2003). Carlo Lancellotti and J. Dorning
  • "A Primitive-Variable Nodal Method for the Time-Dependent Navier-Stokes Equations," in the Proceedings of the 2001 American Nuclear Society International Conference on Mathematical Methods for Nuclear Applications, 15 pp, ANS, LaGrange Park, IL, 2001. E. P. E. Michael and J. Dorning
  • "Time-Asymptotic Traveling-Wave Solutions to the Nonlinear Vlasov-Poisson-Ampère Equations," Journal of Mathematical Physics, 40, 3895-3917 (1999). Carlo Lancellotti and J. Dorning
  • "A Multiple-Scales Systematic Theory for the Simultaneous Homogenization of Lattice Cells and Fuel Assemblies," Transport Theory and Statistical Physics, 26, 765-811 (1997). Hongbin Zhang, Rizwan-uddin and J. J. Dorning
  • "Stability Analysis of BWR Nuclear-Coupled Thermal-Hydraulics Using a Simple Model," Nuclear Engineering and Design, 177, 155-177 (1997). Atul A. Karve, Rizwan-uddin and J. J. Dorning
  • "Systematic Homogenization and Self-Consistent Flux and Pin Power Reconstruction for Nodal Diffusion Methods. Part II: Transport Equation Based Theory," Transport Theory and Statistical Physics, 26, 433-468 (1997). Hongbin Zhang, Rizwan-uddin and J. J. Dorning