Abstract :
The simulation of the flow of rarefied gases by Monte Carlo has been long established and goes by the name DSMC (Direct Simulation by Monte Carlo). The theory, applications and references are well documented in Monographs on this subject, e.g., Bird [Bird, G.A., 1998. Molecular Gas Dynamics and the Direct Simulation of Gas Flows, Clarendon Press, Oxford], Cercignani [Cercignani, C., 2000. Rarified Gas Dynamics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge]. However, as most applications are restricted to two-dimensional flows only, we want to demonstrate that the MCNP code (see [Briesmeier, J.F., 1986. MCNP-A General Monte Carlo Code for Neutron and Photon Transport, Version 3A, Los Alamos National Laboratory]), after a few modifications, provides a very flexible tool to investigate the flow (and reactions) of multicomponent gas-mixtures in complicated three-dimensional structures.
