Publications

This is a list of publications which use Gnat. If you use the activation / dispersion capabilities of Gnat, please consider citing the following.

@inproceedings{sawatzky_2023_gnat,
    author    = {Kevin Sawatzky and Kirk D. Atkinson},
    title     = {{Development of a Near-Field Neutron Activation and Dispersion Solver for the Environmental Impact Code CARIBOU}},
    booktitle = {{Proceedings of M\&C 2023}},
    year      = {2023},
    publisher = {Canadian Nuclear Society}
}

If you use the criticality capabilities of Gnat, please cite the paper below.

@inproceedings{sawatzky_2024_criticality,
    author     = {Kevin Sawatzky and Kirk D. Atkinson},
    title      = {{Verification of a CARIBOU-OpenMC Workflow for the Analysis of HTGR-Like Systems Using the Proposed Ontario Tech Subcritical Assembly}},
    booktitle  = {{Proceedings of PHYSOR 2024}},
    year       = {2024},
    publisher  = {American Nuclear Society}
}

If you use the self-adjoint scalar flux method, consider citing the following.

@inproceedings{sawatzky_2025_sasf_amr,
    author    = {Kevin C. Sawatzky and April J. Novak},
    title     = {{Heuristic-Based Adaptive Mesh Refinement Applied to Ray Effect Mitigation Methods}},
    booktitle = {{Proceedings of M\&C 2025}},
    year      = {2025},
    publisher = {American Nuclear Society}
}

If you use MOOSE for your work, please consider citing the following.

@article{giudicelli_2024_moose,
   title  = {3.0 - {MOOSE}: Enabling massively parallel multiphysics simulations},
   author = {Guillaume Giudicelli and Alexander Lindsay and Logan Harbour and Casey Icenhour and
             Mengnan Li and Joshua E. Hansel and Peter German and Patrick Behne and Oana Marin and
             Roy H. Stogner and Jason M. Miller and Daniel Schwen and Yaqi Wang and Lynn Munday and
             Sebastian Schunert and Benjamin W. Spencer and Dewen Yushu and Antonio Recuero and
             Zachary M. Prince and Max Nezdyur and Tianchen Hu and Yinbin Miao and
             Yeon Sang Jung and Christopher Matthews and April Novak and Brandon Langley and
             Timothy Truster and Nuno Nobre and Brian Alger and David Andr{\v{s}} and
             Fande Kong and Robert Carlsen and Andrew E. Slaughter and John W. Peterson and
             Derek Gaston and Cody Permann},
    year  = {2024},
 journal  = {{SoftwareX}},
  volume  = {26},
   pages  = {101690},
    issn  = {2352-7110},
     doi  = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2024.101690},
     url  = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235271102400061X},
keywords  = {Framework, Finite-element, Finite-volume, Parallel, Multiphysics, Multiscale},
}