Automated convergence detection in Monte Carlo criticality calculations using student's bridge statistics based on K{sub eff} or Shannon entropy
- Inst. for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety IRSN, BP 17, 92262 Fontenay-Aux-Roses Cedex (France)
- Independent Consultant (France)
Monte Carlo (MC) criticality calculations are based on an iterative method. It requires a converged fission source distribution before beginning tallying the effective multiplication factor (K{sub eff}) or other quantities of interest. However, it is pretty difficult to locate on the run, the end of the source convergence and scores may be biased by an initial transient. This paper deals with a method that locates and suppresses the transient due to the initialization in an output series, applied here to K{sub eff} and Shannon entropy. It relies on modeling stationary series by an order 1 auto regressive process and applying statistical tests based on a Student Bridge statistics. It should be noticed that the initial transient suppression only aims at obtaining stationary output series and cannot guarantee any kind of convergence. The truncation method is applied on both K{sub eff} and Shannon entropy on three test cases. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- American Nuclear Society, Inc., 555 N. Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, Illinois 60526 (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 22105646
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: PHYSOR 2012: Conference on Advances in Reactor Physics - Linking Research, Industry, and Education, Knoxville, TN (United States), 15-20 Apr 2012; Other Information: Country of input: France; 8 refs.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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