Analysis of communication costs for domain decomposed Monte Carlo methods in nuclear reactor analysis

A. Siegel; K. Smith; P. Fischer; V. Mahadevan

doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2011.12.014

Analysis of communication costs for domain decomposed Monte Carlo methods in nuclear reactor analysis

A. Siegel, K. Smith, P. Fischer, V. Mahadevan

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A domain decomposed Monte Carlo communication kernel is used to carry out performance tests to establish the feasibility of using Monte Carlo techniques for practical Light Water Reactor (LWR) core analyses. The results of the prototype code are interpreted in the context of simplified performance models which elucidate key scaling regimes of the parallel algorithm.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	3119-3125
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of Computational Physics
Volume	231
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2011.12.014
State	Published - Apr 20 2012
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Monte Carlo
Neutron transport
Performance modeling
Reactor analysis

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Numerical Analysis
Modeling and Simulation
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
Physics and Astronomy(all)
Computer Science Applications
Computational Mathematics
Applied Mathematics

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