ITS version 5.0 : the integrated TIGER series of coupled electron/photon Monte Carlo transport codes.

Franke, Brian Claude ; Kensek, Ronald Patrick ; Laub, Thomas William

Sandia National Laboratories

关键词: I Codes;    99 General And Miscellaneous//Mathematics, Computing, And Information Science;    Photons;    Monte Carlo Method;    Electrons;   

DOI  :  10.2172/918375
RP-ID  :  SAND2003-4173
RP-ID  :  AC04-94AL85000
RP-ID  :  918375

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

ITS is a powerful and user-friendly software package permitting state of the art Monte Carlo solution of linear time-independent couple electron/photon radiation transport problems, with or without the presence of macroscopic electric and magnetic fields of arbitrary spatial dependence. Our goal has been to simultaneously maximize operational simplicity and physical accuracy. Through a set of preprocessor directives, the user selects one of the many ITS codes. The ease with which the makefile system is applied combines with an input scheme based on order-independent descriptive keywords that makes maximum use of defaults and internal error checking to provide experimentalists and theorists alike with a method for the routine but rigorous solution of sophisticated radiation transport problems. Physical rigor is provided by employing accurate cross sections, sampling distributions, and physical models for describing the production and transport of the electron/photon cascade from 1.0 GeV down to 1.0 keV. The availability of source code permits the more sophisticated user to tailor the codes to specific applications and to extend the capabilities of the codes to more complex applications. Version 5.0, the latest version of ITS, contains (1) improvements to the ITS 3.0 continuous-energy codes, (2)multigroup codes with adjoint transport capabilities, and (3) parallel implementations of all ITS codes. Moreover the general user friendliness of the software has been enhanced through increased internal error checking and improved code portability.