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MCNP Variance Reduction Examples

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1054246· OSTI ID:1054246
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  1. Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
MCNP has a fairly rich set of variance reduction techniques. These variance reduction techniques exist in MCNP because they are applicable to a wide variety of common Monte Carlo calculations. The MCNP manual describes what the variance reduction methods do in a detailed sense, but many of these details only really start making sense when the Monte Carlo practitioner has seen a few examples using variance reduction methods. This report gives a number of examples of using variance reduction methods in MCNP.
Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
DOE Contract Number:
AC52-06NA25396;
OSTI ID:
1054246
Report Number(s):
LA-UR--12-25907
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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