An Overview of the Monte Carlo Application ToolKit (MCATK)

Trahan, Travis John¹ 

[1] Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

关键词: NEUTRON TRANSPORT;    PHOTON TRANSPORT;    MONTE CARLO METHOD;    GEOMETRY;    ALGORITHMS;    EIGENVALUES;    PLOTTERS;    M CODES;    TIME DEPENDENCE;    CROSS SECTIONS;    STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;    NUCLEAR DATA COLLECTIONS MCATK;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1237210
RP-ID  :  LA--UR-16-20076
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1237210
Others  :  TRN: US1600293

学科分类：核物理和高能物理

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来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

MCATK is a C++ component-based Monte Carlo neutron-gamma transport software library designed to build specialized applications and designed to provide new functionality in existing general-purpose Monte Carlo codes like MCNP; it was developed with Agile software engineering methodologies under the motivation to reduce costs. The characteristics of MCATK can be summarized as follows: MCATK physics ??? continuous energy neutron-gamma transport with multi-temperature treatment, static eigenvalue (k and ??) algorithms, time-dependent algorithm, fission chain algorithms; MCATK geometry ??? mesh geometries, solid body geometries. MCATK provides verified, unit-tested Monte Carlo components, flexibility in Monte Carlo applications development, and numerous tools such as geometry and cross section plotters. Recent work has involved deterministic and Monte Carlo analysis of stochastic systems. Static and dynamic analysis is discussed, and the results of a dynamic test problem are given.