Automated Monte Carlo biasing for photon-generated electrons near surfaces.

Technical Report · Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2009

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/978430· OSTI ID:978430

Franke, Brian Claude; Crawford, Martin James; Kensek, Ronald Patrick

This report describes efforts to automate the biasing of coupled electron-photon Monte Carlo particle transport calculations. The approach was based on weight-windows biasing. Weight-window settings were determined using adjoint-flux Monte Carlo calculations. A variety of algorithms were investigated for adaptivity of the Monte Carlo tallies. Tree data structures were used to investigate spatial partitioning. Functional-expansion tallies were used to investigate higher-order spatial representations.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 978430
• Report Number(s): SAND2009-6227; TRN: US1003093
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
PHOTON-ELECTRON INTERACTIONS
MONTE CARLO METHOD
TRANSPORT
AUTOMATION
ADJOINT FLUX
ALGORITHMS
Electron transport.
Photon transport theory.
Transport theory-Mathematical models.
Transport properties.