LI Lei, LI Xiaoyan, HUANG Wei, et al. Study on improving MCNP computational efficiency of dose rate for a single-rack cobalt irradiation facility[J]. Nuclear techniques, 2015, 38(3): 030201
LI Lei, LI Xiaoyan, HUANG Wei, et al. Study on improving MCNP computational efficiency of dose rate for a single-rack cobalt irradiation facility[J]. Nuclear techniques, 2015, 38(3): 030201 DOI: 10.11889/j.0253-3219.2015.hjs.38.030201.
Background: Monte Carlo method is regarded as the most accurate method for dose rate calculation at present
whereas its time-consuming defect increases complication for its application in industrial irradiation processing and experiment. Purpose: For a single-rack cobalt irradiation facility with loaded activity of 8.4PBq
a study of optimizing MCNP (Monte Carlo N Particle Transport Code) parameters was done to improve computational efficiency of dose rate. Methods: The effects of five parameters on MCNP computational efficiency
including the thread numbers of parallel computation
tally method
cell size
cutoff energy
and methods dealing with γ-induced electrons were discussed. Results: With certain precision and relative error
the least time-consuming situation was achieved with a set of five parameters
including parallel computation with hyper-thread mode
*F6 tally
cell size of 1cm
γ transport mode and γ-cutoff energy of 100keV. Conclusion: In this work
the cost of time was reduced about 57 times
and the improvement of MCNP computational efficiency was realized.Cited