Dan Gabriel Cacuci is a South Carolina SmartState Endowed Chair Professor and the Director of the Center for Nuclear Science and Energy, Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Carolina. He has a Ph.D. in Applied Physics, Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering from Columbia University. He is also the recipient of many awards including four honorary doctorates, the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Memorial award from the U.S. Dept. of Energy and the Arthur Holly Compton, Eugene P. Wigner and the Glenn Seaborg Awards from the American Nuclear Society.

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• Preface Acknowledgments Author1. Motivation for Computing First- and Second-Order Sensitivities of System Responses to the System’s Parameters 2. Illustrative Application of the 2nd-ASAM to a LinearEvolution Problem 3. The 2nd-ASAM for Linear Systems 4. Application of the 2nd-ASAM to a Linear Heat Conduction andConvection Benchmark Problem 5. Application of the 2nd-ASAM to a Linear ParticleDiffusion Problem 6. Application of the 2nd-ASAM for Computing Sensitivities ofDetector Responses to Uncollided Radiation Transport 7. The 2nd-ASAM for Nonlinear Systems 8. Application of the 2nd-ASAM to a Nonlinear HeatConduction ProblemReferencesIndex

Dan Gabriel Cacuci is a South Carolina SmartState Endowed Chair Professor and the Director of the Center for Nuclear Science and Energy, Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Carolina. He has a Ph.D. in Applied Physics, Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering from Columbia University. He is also the recipient of many awards including four honorary doctorates, the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Memorial award from the U.S. Dept. of Energy and the Arthur Holly Compton, Eugene P. Wigner and the Glenn Seaborg Awards from the American Nuclear Society.

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• Preface Acknowledgments Author1. Motivation for Computing First- and Second-Order Sensitivities of System Responses to the System’s Parameters 2. Illustrative Application of the 2nd-ASAM to a LinearEvolution Problem 3. The 2nd-ASAM for Linear Systems 4. Application of the 2nd-ASAM to a Linear Heat Conduction andConvection Benchmark Problem 5. Application of the 2nd-ASAM to a Linear ParticleDiffusion Problem 6. Application of the 2nd-ASAM for Computing Sensitivities ofDetector Responses to Uncollided Radiation Transport 7. The 2nd-ASAM for Nonlinear Systems 8. Application of the 2nd-ASAM to a Nonlinear HeatConduction ProblemReferencesIndex

Dan Gabriel Cacuci is a South Carolina SmartState Endowed Chair Professor and the Director of the Center for Nuclear Science and Energy, Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Carolina. He has a Ph.D. in Applied Physics, Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering from Columbia University. He is also the recipient of many awards including four honorary doctorates, the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Memorial award from the U.S. Dept. of Energy and the Arthur Holly Compton, Eugene P. Wigner and the Glenn Seaborg Awards from the American Nuclear Society.

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• Preface Acknowledgments Author1. Motivation for Computing First- and Second-Order Sensitivities of System Responses to the System’s Parameters 2. Illustrative Application of the 2nd-ASAM to a LinearEvolution Problem 3. The 2nd-ASAM for Linear Systems 4. Application of the 2nd-ASAM to a Linear Heat Conduction andConvection Benchmark Problem 5. Application of the 2nd-ASAM to a Linear ParticleDiffusion Problem 6. Application of the 2nd-ASAM for Computing Sensitivities ofDetector Responses to Uncollided Radiation Transport 7. The 2nd-ASAM for Nonlinear Systems 8. Application of the 2nd-ASAM to a Nonlinear HeatConduction ProblemReferencesIndex