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After obtaining a Ph.D. at the Northwestern University (USA) in 2004, I did a first post-doc (2004-2006) at the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (France), where I developed a neutron transport core solver using non-conforming finite elements. My second post-doc (2006-2007) took place at the Jacques-Louis Lions Laboratory (France), and was devoted to the design of a generic platform for the parallelization of algebraic domain decomposition methods.
Since October 2007, I work at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany). I am in charge of the legacy code KANEXT for nuclear reactor design analyses. Moreover, I pursue my research in parallel domain decomposition methods for the solution of the Boltzmann transport equation, and develop the MPI/C++ code PARAFISH. For this development, I collaborate with the Engineering Mathematics and Computing Lab (EMCL@KIT). In this framework, I tutored Chandramowli Subramanian, who implemented the Davidson method for neutronics criticality calculations (i.e., eigenvalue problems) within PARAFISH. Further High Performance Computing developments (GPU) are currently being pursued.
Research Interests
Computational neutron transport, parallel computing, domain decompostion, non-conforming finite elements, spherical harmonic (P_N) method, mixed-hybrid methods.E-mail Address:
serge.criekingen AT kit DOT eduvancriekingen AT ann DOT jussieu DOT fr (should remain valid as long as this website remains active)
Mailing Address:
Institut für Neutronenphysik und Reaktortechnik (Institute for Neutron Physics and Reactor Technology)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT-Campus Nord
Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1
76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen
Deutschland (Germany)
"Horum omnium, fortissimi sunt Belgae",
Julius Caesar,
De bello gallico, 50 B.C.