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We present a numerical method and computer code to calculate the radiative transfer and excitation of molecular lines. Formulating the Monte Carlo method from the viewpoint of cells rather than photons allows us to separate local and…

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A phonon and charge transport simulation based on the Geant4 Monte Carlo toolkit is presented. The transport code is capable of propagating acoustic phonons, electrons and holes in cryogenic crystals. Anisotropic phonon propagation, oblique…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-03-21 D. Brandt , R. Agnese , P. Redl , K. Schneck , M. Asai , M. Kelsey , D. Faiez , E. Bagli , B. Cabrera , R. Partridge , T. Saab , B. Sadoulet

During the past years several variance reduction techniques for Monte Carlo electron transport have been developed in order to reduce the electron computation time transport for absorbed dose distribution. We have implemented the Macro…

Medical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. A. Perles , A. de Almeida

An open source software package for simulating thermal neutron propagation in geometry is presented. In this system, neutron propagation can be treated by either the particle transport method or the ray-tracing method. Supported by an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Zi-Yi Pan , Ni Yang , Ming Tang , Peixun Shen , Xiao-Xiao Cai

Monte Carlo / Dynamic Code (MC/DC) is a portable Monte Carlo neutron transport package for rapid numerical methods exploration in heterogeneous and HPC contexts, developed under the auspices of the Center for Exascale Monte Carlo Neutron…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Braxton Cuneo , Joanna Piper Morgan , Ilham Variansyah , Kyle E. Niemeyer

Monte Carlo simulations are commonly used to calculate photon reflectance, absorptance, and transmittance of multi-layer scattering and absorbing media, but they can quickly become prohibitively expensive as the number of layers increases.…

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Proton radiography is used in various high-energy-density (HED) plasma experiments. In this paper, we describe a Monte Carlo and ray-tracing simulation tool called MPRAD that can be used for modeling the deflection of proton beams in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Yingchao Lu , Hui Li , Kirk A. Flippo , Kwyntero Kelso , Andy Liao , Shengtai Li , Edison Liang

Purpose: Very fast Monte Carlo (MC) simulations of proton transport have been implemented recently on GPUs. However, these usually use simplified models for non-elastic (NE) proton-nucleus interactions. Our primary goal is to build a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 H. Wan Chan Tseung , J. Ma , C. Beltran

We analyze the line radiative transfer in protoplanetary disks using several approximate methods and a well-tested Accelerated Monte Carlo code. A low-mass flaring disk model with uniform as well as stratified molecular abundances is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ya. Pavlyuchenkov , D. Semenov , Th. Henning , St. Guilloteau , V. Pietu , R. Launhardt , A. Dutrey

$\underline{\textbf{MO}}$nte-carlo $\underline{\textbf{N}}$ucleon transport $\underline{\textbf{C}}$ode (MONC) for nucleon transport is being developed for several years. Constructive Solid Geometry concept is applied with the help of solid…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-08-27 H. Kumawat , P. P. K. Venkata

This extended abstract briefly summarizes ongoing research activity on the evaluation and experimental validation of physics methods for photon and electron transport. The analysis includes physics models currently implemented in Geant4 as…

Random-walk Monte Carlo simulations are widely used to predict the optical properties of complex, disordered materials. In presence of large heterogeneities (e.g., spatially-extended nonscattering regions in a turbid environment), an…

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Purpose: To investigate the validity of two Monte Carlo simulation absolute dosimetry approaches in the case of a small field dedicated `D'-shaped collimator used for the retinoblastoma treatment with external photon beam radiotherapy.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-09-25 P. A. Mayorga , L. Brualla , A. Flühs , W. Sauerwein , A. M. Lallena

Computer simulations of photon transport through an absorbing and/or scattering medium form an important research tool in astrophysics. Nearly all software codes performing such simulations for three-dimensional geometries employ the Monte…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Peter Camps , Maarten Baes

Significance: Monte Carlo (MC) methods are the gold-standard for modeling light-tissue interactions due to their accuracy. Mesh-based MC (MMC) offers enhanced precision for complex tissue structures using tetrahedral mesh models. Despite…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Shijie Yan , Douglas Dwyer , David R. Kaeli , Qianqian Fang

In semi-classical transport, it has become common practice over the past few decades to use ensemble Monte Carlo (EMC) methods for the simulation of transport in semiconductor devices. This method utilizes particles while still addressing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 David K. Ferry

We present ParaDRAM, a high-performance Parallel Delayed-Rejection Adaptive Metropolis Markov Chain Monte Carlo software for optimization, sampling, and integration of mathematical objective functions encountered in scientific inference.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Amir Shahmoradi , Fatemeh Bagheri

The Monte Carlo-type Neural Operator (MCNO) introduces a framework for learning solution operators of one-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) by directly learning the kernel function and approximating the associated integral…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Salah Eddine Choutri , Prajwal Chauhan , Othmane Mazhar , Saif Eddin Jabari

Purpose: This work advances a Monte Carlo (MC) method to combine ionizing radiation physics with optical physics, in a manner which was implicitly designed for deployment with the most widely accessible parallelization and portability…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-05-05 Ethan P. M. LaRochelle , Pedro Arce , Brian W. Pogue