Nuclear Engineering Faculty

• Modeling, Analysis, and Numerical Techniques for Charged and Neutral Particle Radiation Transport, with Applications to Reactor Physics, Medical Physics, and National Security
• Closure and Closure-Free Methods in Stochastic Transport Theory

• Applied Computational Radiation Modeling
• Nuclear Reactor Physics
• High Proformance Computing
• Advanced Numerical Solution Methods
• Multiphysics Simulations
• Optimization and Data Assimilation

• Space Power
• Thermal-Hydraulics
• Gas Cooled Reactors
• Energy Conversion
• Nuclear Fuel Cycle
• Fuel and Materials
• Advanced cooling of Electronic, Boiling and Micro-channel flow
• Neutronics and CFD Analysis
• Space Radiation

Dr. Philip H. Heintz
Professor
Ph: (505) 272-3402
Email: pheintz@salud.unm.edu
Webpage

Research Interests:

• Diagnostic X-Ray
• Radiological Physics
• Treatment Planning Design
• Ultrasound Imaging
• Diagnostic Radiology QA

• Plamsa Physics and Applications
• Inertial confinement and magnetized target fusion
• High energy density physics

• Development of neutron and gamma-ray detection techniques for measurement the properties of fusing plasmas
• Radiation detection techniques for measurement of nuclear materials

• Monte Carlo methods
• Computational radiation transport and reactor physics, time series analysis
• Application of information theory

• Radiation Detectors and Techniques
• Medical Physics and Nuclear Nonproliferation
• Ion Beam Radiotherapy
• Novel Accelerator Designs, Techniques, and Applications

• Nuclear Criticality Safety, Fission Reactor Parameters and Kinetics
• Radiation Protection and Environmental Measurements
• NonProliferation and the Nuclear Fuel Cycle

Research Interests:

• Radiation Transport
• Reactor Kinetics & Controls
• Artificial Trapped Electrons in Space
• Triggered Isomers
• Low Engery NE Reactors