The effect of branchless collisions and population control on correlations in Monte Carlo power iteration

T Bonnet, H Belanger, D Mancusi… - Nuclear Science and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The investigation of correlations in Monte Carlo power iteration has long been dominated by
the question of generational correlations and their effects on the estimation of statistical …

OpenMC (TD): Current status and next development stages

J Romero-Barrientos, F Molina, M Zambra… - EPJ Web of …, 2024 - epj-conferences.org
This work presents the current state and the next stages in the development of the modified
code OpenMC (TD), a modified version of the Monte Carlo code OpenMC which includes …

Analysis of fluctuations and correlations in kinetic Monte Carlo methods

T Bonnet - 2023 - theses.hal.science
Numerical simulation tools play a crucial role in modelling the behaviour of nuclear reactors.
Numerical simulations mitigate the lack of experimental data, in particular in non-stationary …

Branchless Collisions for Reducing Spatial Correlations in Continuous Energy Monte Carlo Power Iteration

T Bonnet, H Belanger - EPJ Web of Conferences, 2024 - epj-conferences.org
Branchless collisions are customarily used in time-dependent Monte Carlo simulations and
have been recently introduced in Monte Carlo power iteration. Previous works have shown …