Status of Monte Carlo at Los Alamos
Description
At Los Alamos the early work of Fermi, von Neumann, and Ulam has been developed and supplemented by many followers, notably Cashwell and Everett, and the main product today is the continuous-energy, general-purpose, generalized-geometry, time-dependent, coupled neutron-photon transport code called MCNP. The Los Alamos Monte Carlo research and development effort is concentrated in Group X-6. MCNP treats an arbitrary three-dimensional configuration of arbitrary materials in geometric cells bounded by first- and second-degree surfaces and some fourth-degree surfaces (elliptical tori). Monte Carlo has evolved into perhaps the main method for radiation transport calculations at Los Alamos. MCNP is used in every technical division at the Laboratory by over 130 users about 600 times a month accounting for nearly 200 hours of CDC-7600 time
Availability note (English)
MF available from INIS under the Report Number; Available from NTIS., PC A02/MF A01.
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Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 17 p.
- Report number
- LA-UR--80-1158
Conference
- Title
- Seminar on theory and applications of Monte Carlo methods.
- Dates
- Apr 1980.
- Place
- Oak Ridge, TN, USA.
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 11555323
- Subject category
- S22: GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS; S99: GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- COMPUTER CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER CODES; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; LASL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; REACTOR KINETICS; RESEARCH PROGRAMS
- Descriptors DEC
- KINETICS; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; PHYSICS; US AEC; US ERDA; US ORGANIZATIONS
Optional Information
- Secondary number(s)
- CONF-800471--3.