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

discrete angular sampling methodhighly anisotropic scatteringMonte Carlo simulationparticle transport

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Review text

Recognizing that the scoring accuracy is often limited by the angular sampling procedure for simulations involving highly anisotropic scattering, the authors develop a new discrete angular sampling method. This method is based on matching the first N moments of a given continuous angular scattering PDF with the first N moments of a discrete PDF consisting of a sequence of N Dirac spikes. The accuracy of Monte Carlo simulation increases with N. It is shown that the proposed discrete angular sampling method works best for highly forward peaked scattering with a high albedo. Even though both discrete method and tabular method require computational effort, the discrete method is slightly faster and more flexible than the tabular method.

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