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- Subject: Monte Carlo and Neutron Transport.
- Keywords: Monte Carlo, Neutron Transport, Early Behavior
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 18:31:57 GMT
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- According to authors such as Chandrasekhar (1943, Rev. Mod. Phys.)
- in the limit as the number of scatters approaches infinity, the probability
- distribution of a random walk of a neutron approaches that of the diffusion
- equation. In practice, a number of scatters on the order of 20-25 is
- sufficient to see the limiting behavior.
-
- I am interested in finding out about the early behavior in the Monte Carlo
- simulation. Does anybody know of a reference which can give me this in
- terms of time? A reference which I found fits the early behavior using
- the number of scatters (i.e. the probability distribution after n scatters).
- I need the probability distribution at time t where time t is small enough
- that only a few scatters has taken place.
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