Adjoint Monte Carlo Generation of Radiation Response Functions for Complex Missiles.

Abstract

An adjoint Monte Carlo calculation technique for the generation of neutron and gamma-ray radiation response functions in complex, three-dimensional geometries is presented in both general terms to allow an understanding of the method, and with enough calculational detail to apply the technique. The radiation response functions can be folded with any angle-dependent neutron and gamma-ray free field source and any neutron and gamma-ray response. Thus, missile vulnerability can be determined for any damage mechanism which can be expressed as damage per incident neutron or gamma-ray energy for any incident energy-angle dependent source. The MORSE multigroup, coupled neutron-gamma-ray Monte Carlo code was used to perform adjoint transport in current missile systems which were modeled with the combinatorial geometry package. (Modified author abstract)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 05, 1974
Accession Number
AD0777088

Entities

People

  • James A. Lonergan
  • William A. Woolson
  • William H. Scott Jr.

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Free Field
  • Gamma Rays
  • Geometry
  • Radiation
  • Three Dimensional
  • Transport Ships
  • Vulnerability

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

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