Actions for Random number stride in Monte Carlo calculations [electronic resource].

Email RIS file
Bookmark
Report an Issue

Random number stride in Monte Carlo calculations [electronic resource].

Published
Washington, D.C : United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs, 1990.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
Physical Description
Pages: (7 pages) : digital, PDF file
Additional Creators
Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States. Department of Energy. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
Access Online

Availability

I Want It
I Want It

Finding items...

Restrictions on Access
Free-to-read Unrestricted online access
Summary
Monte Carlo radiation transport codes use a sequence of pseudorandom numbers to sample from probability distributions. A common practice is to start each source particle a predetermined number of random numbers up the pseudorandom number sequence. This number of random numbers skipped between each source particles the random number stride, S. Consequently, the jth source particle always starts with the j{center dot}Sth random number providing correlated sampling'' between similar calculations. A new machine-portable random number generator has been written for the Monte Carlo radiation transport code MCNP providing user's control of the random number stride. First the new MCNP random number generator algorithm will be described and then the effects of varying the stride will be presented. 2 refs., 1 fig.
Report Numbers
E 1.99:la-ur-90-1845
E 1.99: conf-901101--4
conf-901101--4
la-ur-90-1845
Subject(s)
Other Subject(s)
Note
Published through SciTech Connect.
01/01/1990.
"la-ur-90-1845"
" conf-901101--4"
"DE90012000"
American Nuclear Society winter meeting, Washington, DC (USA), 11-15 Nov 1990.
Hendricks, J.S.
Funding Information
W-7405-ENG-36
View MARC record | catkey: 13826548