ENHANCEMENTS TO THE COMBINATORIAL GEOMETRY PARTICLE TRACKER IN THE MERCURY MONTE CARLO TRANSPORT CODE: EMBEDDED MESHES AND DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION

摘要

Two enhancements to the combinatorial geometry (CG) particle tracker in the Mercury Monte Carlo transport code are presented. The first enhancement is a hybrid particle tracker wherein a mesh region is embedded within a CG region. This method permits efficient calculations of problems with contain both large-scale heterogeneous and homogeneous regions. The second enhancement relates to the addition of parallelism within the CG tracker via spatial domain decomposition. This permits calculations of problems with a large degree of geometric complexity, which are not possible through particle parallelism alone. In this method, the cells are decomposed across processors and a particles is communicated to an adjacent processor when it tracks to an interproces-sor boundary. Applications that demonstrate the efficacy of these new methods are presented.