Cornelia Chilian
Ph.D.
Researcher
Department of Engineering Physics
Department of Engineering Physics
Research interests and affiliations
Research interests
Development of the Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) methodfor samples of a priori unknown composition by implementing simultaneous and iterative correction of gamma-attenuation and thermal and epithermal neutron self-shielding
- NAA applied to exotic materials, catalysts, fuel cells and rare earth elements
- Laboratory Information Management System for NAA
- Radioactive tracers
- Software for gamma ray spectrometry and k0 NAA method for stable flux reactors
Affiliation(s)
- SLOWPOKE Laboratory, Director
Expertise type(s) (NSERC subjects)
- 2400 NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
- 2401 Reactor design and operation
- 2402 Radioactive materials
- 3102 Nuclear physics
- 3108 Experimental methods and instrumentation
Publications
Recent publications
Journal article
Journal article
Journal article
Journal article
Naceur, A., Hébert, A., Romano, P., Forget, B., Chilian, C., & Carrier, J.-F. (2023). Feasibility of a multigroup Boltzmann-Fokker-Planck solution for electron beam dose calculations. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 1310 (21 pages).
Chavez-Gomez, P., Pelzmann, T., Hall, D. R., Chilian, C., Laberge Lebel, L., & Robert, É. (2022). Carbon fiber damage evolution under flame attack and the role of impurities. Fire and Materials, 47(2), 226-240.
Mathew, F., Chilian, C., Montgomery, L., & Kildea, J. (2021). Development of a passive gold-foil Nested Neutron Spectrometer to validate the active current-mode He-3 measurements in a high neutron fluence rate radiotherapy environment. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 985, 164662 (7 pages).
Ngapo, T. M., Champagne, C., Chilian, C., Dugan, M. E. R., Gariepy, S., Vahmani, P., & Bilodeau, P. (2021). Pemmican, an endurance food: Past and present. Meat Science, 178, 11 pages.
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Teaching
ENE6110: Nuclear Engineering Laboratory
Supervision at Polytechnique
COMPLETED
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Master's Thesis (3)
- Diep, C. (2022). 46 Sc Gamma-Ray Assembly for Studying Erbium and Erbium-Ytterbium Doped Optical Fibers for Space Applications [Master's thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
- Abdollahi Neisiani, M. (2017). Quantifyng Rare Earth Element Content in High Concentrated Samples by ko-NAA [Master's thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal].
- Raouafi, H. (2012). Étude numérique de l'autoprotection spatiale dans des échantillons fortement absorbants irradiés dans le réacteur SLOWPOKE [Master's thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal].
