Hybrid Deterministic/Monte Carlo Neutronics Using GPU Accelerators

Author

Willert, Jeff ; Kelley, C.T. ; Knoll, D.A. ; Dong, Han ; Ravishankar, Mahesh ; Sathre, Paul ; Sullivan, Michael ; Taitano, William

Author_Institution

Dept. of Math., North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

19-22 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

43

Lastpage

47

Abstract

In this paper we discuss a GPU implementation of a hybrid deterministic/Monte Carlo method for the solution of the neutron transport equation. The key feature is using GPUs to perform a Monte Carlo transport sweep as part of the evaluation of the nonlinear residual and Jacobian-vector product. We describe the algorithm and present some preliminary numerical results which illustrate the effectiveness of the GPU Monte Carlo sweeps.

Keywords

Boltzmann equation; Monte Carlo methods; Poisson equation; graphics processing units; neutron transport theory; nuclear engineering computing; vectors; GPU accelerators; Jacobian-vector product; Monte Carlo transport sweep; hybrid deterministic-Monte Carlo neutronics; neutron transport equation; nonlinear residual product; Equations; Graphics processing units; History; Jacobian matrices; Mathematical model; Monte Carlo methods; Neutrons; GPU; Jacobian-Free Newton-Krylov; Monte Carlo; Neutron Transport;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing and Applications to Business, Engineering & Science (DCABES), 2012 11th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Guilin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2630-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DCABES.2012.37

Filename

6385236