Nonnegative Anisotropic Group Cross Sections: A Hybrid Monte Carlo-Discrete Elements-Discrete Ordinates Approach

2001 ◽  
Vol 139 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Mark DelGrande ◽  
Kirk A. Mathews
Keyword(s):  
Monte Carlo ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
Discrete Ordinates ◽  
Discrete Elements ◽  
Hybrid Monte Carlo

Exclusive Multiple Emission Cross Sections in the Hybrid Monte Carlo Pre-equilibrium Model and in EMPIRE-3.1

2014 ◽  
Vol 118 ◽  
pp. 276-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.V. Carlson ◽  
L. Brito ◽  
D.F. Mega ◽  
R. Capote ◽  
M. Herman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Monte Carlo ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
Equilibrium Model ◽  
Hybrid Monte Carlo

scholarly journals The Effect of the Flux Separability Approximation on Multigroup Neutron Transport

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-96
Author(s):  
Adam G. Nelson ◽  
William Boyd ◽  
Paul K. Romano
Keyword(s):  
Monte Carlo ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
Neutron Transport ◽  
Group Structure ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
Computational Time ◽  
Discrete Ordinates ◽  
Energy Structure ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Monte Carlo Transport

The angular dependence of flux-weighted multigroup cross sections is commonly neglected when generating multigroup libraries. The error of this flux separability approximation is typically not isolated from other error sources due to a lack of availability of library generation and corresponding solvers that cannot relax this approximation. These errors can now be isolated and quantified with the availability of a multigroup Monte Carlo transport and multigroup library-generation capability in the OpenMC Monte Carlo transport code. This work will discuss relevant details of the OpenMC implementation, provide an example case useful for detailing the type of errors one can expect from making the flux separability approximation, and end with more realistic problems which show the impact of the approximation and highlight how it can strongly arise from an energy-dependent resonance absorption effect. Since the angle-dependence is intrinsically linked to the energy group structure, these examples also show that relaxing the flux separability approximation with angle-dependent cross sections could be used to reduce either the fine-tuning required to set a multigroup energy structure for a specific reactor type or the number of energy groups required to obtain a desired level of accuracy for a given problem. This trade-off could increase the costs of generating multigroup cross sections, and has the potential to require more memory for storing the multigroup library during the transport calculations, but it can significantly reduce the computational time required since the runtime of a discrete ordinates or method of characteristics neutron transport solver scales roughly linearly with the number of groups.

Electron Scattering in Solids

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-5
Author(s):  
Ryuichi Shimizu ◽  
Ze-Jun Ding
Keyword(s):  
Monte Carlo Simulation ◽  
Monte Carlo ◽  
Angular Distribution ◽  
Elastic Scattering ◽  
Electron Scattering ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
Expansion Method ◽  
Electron Excitation ◽  
Partial Wave Expansion ◽  
Backscattered Electrons

Monte Carlo simulation has been becoming most powerful tool to describe the electron scattering in solids, leading to more comprehensive understanding of the complicated mechanism of generation of various types of signals for microbeam analysis.The present paper proposes a practical model for the Monte Carlo simulation of scattering processes of a penetrating electron and the generation of the slow secondaries in solids. The model is based on the combined use of Gryzinski’s inner-shell electron excitation function and the dielectric function for taking into account the valence electron contribution in inelastic scattering processes, while the cross-sections derived by partial wave expansion method are used for describing elastic scattering processes. An improvement of the use of this elastic scattering cross-section can be seen in the success to describe the anisotropy of angular distribution of elastically backscattered electrons from Au in low energy region, shown in Fig.l. Fig.l(a) shows the elastic cross-sections of 600 eV electron for single Au-atom, clearly indicating that the angular distribution is no more smooth as expected from Rutherford scattering formula, but has the socalled lobes appearing at the large scattering angle.

Development of SiO2 based doped with LiF, Cr2O3, CoO4 and B2O3 glasses for gamma and fast neutron shielding

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bünyamin Aygün ◽  
Erdem Şakar ◽  
Abdulhalik Karabulut ◽  
Bünyamin Alım ◽  
Mohammed I. Sayyed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Monte Carlo Simulation ◽  
Monte Carlo ◽  
Fast Neutron ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
Gamma Ray ◽  
Absorbed Dose ◽  
Neutron Shielding ◽  
Shielding Properties ◽  
Effective Neutron ◽  
Simulation Codes

AbstractIn this study, the fast neutron and gamma-ray absorption capacities of the new glasses have been investigated, which are obtained by doping CoO,CdWO4,Bi2O3, Cr2O3, ZnO, LiF,B2O3 and PbO compounds to SiO2 based glasses. GEANT4 and FLUKA Monte Carlo simulation codes have been used in the planning of the samples. The glasses were produced using a well-known melt-quenching technique. The effective neutron removal cross-sections, mean free paths, half-value layer, and transmission numbers of the fabricated glasses have been calculated through both GEANT4 and FLUKA Monte Carlo simulation codes. Experimental neutron absorbed dose measurements have been carried out. It was found that GS4 glass has the best neutron protection capacity among the produced glasses. In addition to neutron shielding properties, the gamma-ray attenuation capacities, were calculated using newly developed Phy-X/PSD software. The gamma-ray shielding properties of GS1 and GS2 are found to be equivalent to Pb-based glass.

scholarly journals The Ising model with Hybrid Monte Carlo

2021 ◽  
Vol 265 ◽  
pp. 107978
Author(s):  
Johann Ostmeyer ◽  
Evan Berkowitz ◽  
Thomas Luu ◽  
Marcus Petschlies ◽  
Ferenc Pittler
Keyword(s):  
Monte Carlo ◽  
Ising Model ◽  
Hybrid Monte Carlo

scholarly journals Testing a Fourier-accelerated hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm

2002 ◽  
Vol 528 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 301-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Catterall ◽  
Sergey Karamov
Keyword(s):  
Monte Carlo ◽  
Monte Carlo Algorithm ◽  
Hybrid Monte Carlo
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