TAGGED PARTICLES IN MONTE CARLO CALCULATIONS OF RADIATION TRANSFER USING THE PRIZMA COMPUTER PROGRAM

摘要

The additional possibilities due to the introduction into the PRIZMA program, intended for performing Monte Carlo calculations of linear radiation transfer problems, of a particle tagging technique are studied. In calculations, it is often necessary to estimate the contribution of particles which were in some particular situation. The tagged-particle method was developed to obtain such results. A particle is tagged with a marker and the results are recorded as a function of whether or not the particle is tagged. To solve multivariant problems, arising in the calculation of the effects due to small perturbations, a special method was developed for simulating trajectories using tagged particles. This method makes it possible to obtain in a single calculation correlated results for all variants of the problem. The possibilities of the tagged-particle method and the special method of simulation are illustrated for numerical examples.