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Material Interface Reconstruction for Monte Carlo Particle Tracking [electronic resource].

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Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 2006.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States. Department of Energy, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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Summary
In this project we implement material interface reconstruction into a large, massively parallel Monte Carlo particle transport code. Here we examine the benefit of resolving a material interface for criticality calculations. Input to the code is a mesh with material and density defined on the mesh. For mesh zones that contain more than one material (mixed zones), the old approximation made in the code is to homogenize the material properties of all the materials in the zone. The neutron mean free path is a function of the material density that the neutron is traveling through, so for mixed zones, we use the average density of the zone, rather than reconstructing a material interface, determining which material within the zone the particle is in and using the correct density based on the position of the particle within the zone. In order to get a better answer, here we implement material interface reconstruction and rather than homogenizing the materials in a mixed zone, we have a material interface divide the zone so we can tell which material the particle is in, based on the particle's position and the location of the material interface.
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E 1.99:ucrl-tr-219915
ucrl-tr-219915
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Published through SciTech Connect.
03/15/2006.
"ucrl-tr-219915"
O'Brien, M J.
Funding Information
W-7405-ENG-48
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