Monte Carlo Methods for Particle Transport

ISBN-13: 9780367188054 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 290 str.

Alireza Haghighat

Opis

Fully updated with the latest developments in the eigenvalue Monte Carlo calculations and automatic variance reduction techniques and containing an entirely new chapter on fission matrix and alternative hybrid techniques.

Spis treści

1 Introduction. 2 Random Variables and Sampling. 3 Random Number Generator (RNG). 4 Fundamentals of Probability and Statistics. 5 Integrals and Associated Variance Reduction Techniques. 6 Fixed-Source Monte Carlo Particle Transport. 7 Variance Reducation Techniques or Fixed-Source Particles. 8 Scoring/ Tallying. 9 Geometry and Particle Tracking. 10 Eigenvalue (Criticality) Monte Carlo Method for Particle Transport. 11 Fission Matrix Methods for Eigenvalue Monte Carlo Simulation. 12 Vector and Parallel Processing of Monte Carlo Particle Transport

O autorze

Dr. Alireza Haghighat is professor and Director of Nuclear Engineering Program, Virginia Tech. He is a fellow of the American Nuclear Society. He has made pioneering contributions to the development of accurate and efficient deterministic, stochastic, and hybrid particle transport theory methods and their application to complex problems in nuclear reactors, nuclear security and radiation diagnosis and therapy.