Four decades of implicit Monte Carlo

AB Wollaber - Journal of Computational and Theoretical Transport, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT In 1971, Fleck and Cummings derived a system of equations to enable robust
Monte Carlo simulations of time-dependent, thermal radiative transfer problems. Denoted …

A continuous source tilting scheme for radiative transfer equations in implicit Monte Carlo

Y Shi, X Han, W Sun, P Song - Journal of Computational and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The implicit Monte Carlo (IMC) method can exhibit teleportation error in problems
with strong coupling between radiation and material. Source tilting method is a technique to …

Frequency-dependent discrete implicit Monte Carlo scheme for the radiative transfer equation

E Steinberg, SI Heizler - Nuclear Science and Engineering, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This work generalizes the discrete implicit Monte Carlo (DIMC) method for modeling the
radiative transfer equation from a gray treatment to a frequency-dependent one. The classic …

Unified gas-kinetic particle method for frequency-dependent radiation transport

W Li, C Liu, P Song - Journal of Computational Physics, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a unified gas-kinetic particle (UGKP) method for the frequency-
dependent photon transport process. The photon transport is a typical multiscale process …

A new discrete implicit Monte Carlo scheme for simulating radiative transfer problems

E Steinberg, SI Heizler - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a new algorithm for radiative transfer—based on a statistical Monte Carlo
approach—that does not suffer from teleportation effects, on the one hand, and yields …

Mitigating Spatial Error in the Iterative Quasi–Monte Carlo (iQMC) Method for Neutron Transport Simulations with Linear Discontinuous Source Tilting and Effective …

S Pasmann, I Variansyah, CT Kelley… - Nuclear Science and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The iterative Quasi–Monte Carlo (iQMC) method is a recently proposed method for
neutron transport simulations. iQMC can be viewed as a hybrid between deterministic …

Reducing Spatial Discretization Error with Linear Discontinuous Source Tilting in Iterative Quasi-Monte Carlo for Neutron Transport

S Pasmann, I Variansyah, CT Kelley… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Recently, iterative Quasi-Monte Carlo (iQMC) was introduced as a new method of neutron
transport which combines deterministic iterative methods and quasi-Monte Carlo simulation …

A functional expansion tally method for gray radiative transfer equations in implicit Monte Carlo

Y Shi, H Yong, C Zhai, J Qi, P Song - Journal of Computational and …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The Implicit Monte Carlo (IMC) method is widely used for solving the nonlinear
thermal radiative transport problems. This method often exhibits teleportation error in …

A multi-dimensional, moment-accelerated deterministic particle method for time-dependent, multi-frequency thermal radiative transfer problems

H Hammer, HK Park, L Chacon - Journal of Computational Physics, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Thermal Radiative Transfer (TRT) is the dominant energy transfer mechanism in
high-energy density physics with applications in inertial confinement fusion and …

Unified gas-kinetic wave-particle method for frequency-dependent radiation transport equation

X Yang, Y Zhu, C Liu, K Xu - Journal of Computational Physics, 2025 - Elsevier
The multi-frequency radiation transport equation (RTE) system models the photon transport
and the energy exchange process between the background material and different frequency …