کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5475309 1521094 2017 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Woodcock tracking with arbitrary sampling cross section using negative weights
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی انرژی مهندسی انرژی و فناوری های برق
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Woodcock tracking with arbitrary sampling cross section using negative weights
چکیده انگلیسی
The paper presents a variant of the Woodcock free flight distance sampling algorithm. Instead of a majorant cross section of the whole system, an arbitrarily chosen cross section can be used for sampling the free flight distance. As the sampling cross section is permitted to be smaller than the maximum of the cross sections, the novel algorithm may cause particle weights to become negative. This technique circumvents the major drawback of conventional Woodcock sampling when a localized heavy absorber implies much more frequent path sampling than required thereby rendering the calculation ineffective. Theoretical derivation is shown for heterogeneous medium. A one dimensional analytical and numerical model is presented for basic optimization study of the free sampling parameters and an applied case illustration is shown using a GPU-based radiotherapy Monte Carlo code.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Annals of Nuclear Energy - Volume 102, April 2017, Pages 116-123
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