| # |
Date |
Lesson |
Reading/Tutorials/Homework due
|
| 1 |
1/8/09 |
Introduction
Statistical
background
Theoretical
underpinnings
|
pp.
296-298
313-321 |
| 2 |
1/15/09 |
Pseudorandom
number generation
Choosing
variables from distributions
Coding an event-based problem
|
Numerical
Recipes
(7.0,7.1)
Homework set #1 due
|
| 3 |
1/22/09 |
Event variance
reduction: Basis and examples
Source of error: Discrepancy
Stratified sampling
Quasi-Monte Carlo
|
Homework set #2 due
|
| 4 |
1/29/09 |
Decisions made in the life
of a neutron
PDFs governing each of the decisions
Keeping score: Flux and reaction rates
|
Homework set #3 due
|
|
2/5/09 |
Test#1
|
|
5
|
2/12/09 |
Extension of LLN to
functions
Generalization to Green's functions
Simplest example: Dirac delta
Solutions of simple integrals
|
|
6
|
2/19/09 |
Solution of
integral equations
Solution of linked equations
Neumann self-linked equations
|
Homework set #5
due |
7
|
2/26/09 |
Generalization
to matrices and vectors
Strategies for k-effective calculations
Variance
reduction techniques
|
Homework set #6
due |
8
|
3/5/09 |
Putting it together: 1D
Class exercise
VR examples in 1D code |
Homework set #7 due |
|
3/12/09 |
Test#2
|
|
|
3/19/09
|
(Spring
Break. No class meeting.)
|
|
9
|
3/26/09 |
Derivation of Forward
Integral Boltzmann Equation
MC algorithm for forward BE
Tallies
|
Tutorial #1: Geometry
Tutorial #2: Materials |
| 10 |
4/2/09 |
Traditional VR
techniques
Special role of cell weighting and weight windows in MCNP
Special MCNP variance reduction techniques
|
Tutorial #3:
Sources
Tutorial #4: Tallies |
| 11 |
4/9/09 |
(Maundy
Thursday. No class meeting.)
|
Tutorial #5:
Eigenvalue calculations
Tutorial #6: Variance reduction techniques |
| 12 |
4/16/09 |
Derivation
of Adjoint Integral Boltzmann Equation
MC algorithm for adjoint BE
Application of
adjoint in nuclear engineering:
|
Tutorial set #7:
Multigroup calculations
Tutorial set #8: Adjoint calculations |
|
4/23/09 |
Test#3 |
|
| |
4/30/09
|
TakeHome Final
due
|
|
NE582 Monte Carlo