Hybrid Monte Carlo/Deterministic Methods for Radiation Shielding Problems.
dc.contributor.author | Becker, Troy L. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-01-07T16:25:01Z | |
dc.date.available | NO_RESTRICTION | en_US |
dc.date.available | 2010-01-07T16:25:01Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | en_US |
dc.date.submitted | en_US | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/64655 | |
dc.description.abstract | For the past few decades, the most common type of deep-penetration (shielding) problem simulated using Monte Carlo methods has been the source-detector problem, in which a response is calculated at a single location in space. Traditionally, the nonanalog Monte Carlo methods used to solve these problems have required significant user input to generate and sufficiently optimize the biasing parameters necessary to obtain a statistically reliable solution. It has been demonstrated that this laborious task can be replaced by automated processes that rely on a deterministic adjoint solution to set the biasing parameters – the so-called hybrid methods. The increase in computational power over recent years has also led to interest in obtaining the solution in a region of space much larger than a point detector. In this thesis, we propose two methods for solving problems ranging from source-detector problems to more global calculations – weight windows and the Transform approach. These techniques employ some of the same biasing elements that have been used previously; however, the fundamental difference is that here the biasing techniques are used as elements of a comprehensive tool set to distribute Monte Carlo particles in a user-specified way. The weight window achieves the user-specified Monte Carlo particle distribution by imposing a particular weight window on the system, without altering the particle physics. The Transform approach introduces a transform into the neutron transport equation, which results in a complete modification of the particle physics to produce the user-specified Monte Carlo distribution. These methods are tested in a three-dimensional multigroup Monte Carlo code. For a basic shielding problem and a more realistic one, these methods adequately solved source-detector problems and more global calculations. Furthermore, they confirmed that theoretical Monte Carlo particle distributions correspond to the simulated ones, implying that these methods can be used to achieve user-specified Monte Carlo distributions. Overall, the Transform approach performed more efficiently than the weight window methods, but it performed much more efficiently for source-detector problems than for global problems. | en_US |
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dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.subject | Monte Carlo | en_US |
dc.subject | Radiation Transport | en_US |
dc.subject | Shielding | en_US |
dc.subject | Contributon | en_US |
dc.subject | Hybrid | en_US |
dc.title | Hybrid Monte Carlo/Deterministic Methods for Radiation Shielding Problems. | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.description.thesisdegreename | PhD | en_US |
dc.description.thesisdegreediscipline | Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.thesisdegreegrantor | University of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Larsen, Edward W. | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Combi, Michael | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Grove, Robert E. | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Holloway, James Paul | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Martin, William R. | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Engineering | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/64655/1/beckertr_1.pdf | |
dc.owningcollname | Dissertations and Theses (Ph.D. and Master's) |
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