MONT3E: A Monte Carlo electron heat transfer code

Author

Maltby, J.D. ; Kornblum, B.T.

Author_Institution

Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab., CA, USA

fYear

1990

fDate

12-16 Nov 1990

Firstpage

700

Lastpage

707

Abstract

A Monte Carlo code, MONT3E, was written to analyze heat transfer due to electron backscattering. The availability of supercomputers has made large-scale applications of this analysis technique possible. The physical theory of electron trajectories is described and related to implementation of an electron tracing algorithm. The analysis requires three types of information: a geometric description of the enclosed volume under analysis, a magnetic field definition, and a model of electron-surface interaction. The implementation of these three components in MONT3E is presented. An electron backscatter experiment was modeled using the code. The MONT3E predictions compared favorably to the experimental data, lending confidence to code predictions

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; electron impact; heat transfer; parallel algorithms; particle backscattering; physics computing; MONT3E; Monte Carlo electron heat transfer code; electron backscattering; electron tracing algorithm; electron trajectories; electron-surface interaction; enclosed volume; geometric description; magnetic field definition; Availability; Backscatter; Electrons; Heat transfer; Information analysis; Large-scale systems; Magnetic analysis; Magnetic fields; Monte Carlo methods; Supercomputers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Supercomputing '90., Proceedings of

Conference_Location

New York, NY

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2056-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SUPERC.1990.130089

Filename

130089