A discrete method for anisotropic angular sampling in Monte Carlo simulations

DOI10.1016/0021-9991(88)90149-0MaRDI QIDQ1105345zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Douglas R. Wyman, Michael S. Patterson

Publication date 1988

Published in Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9991(88)90149-0

zbMATH Keywords

Monte Carlo simulationparticle transportdiscrete angular sampling methodhighly anisotropic scattering

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Integro-partial differential equations (45K05) Numerical methods for integral equations (65R20) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

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