RE: Difficulty in defining the geometry

I think that the torus will be introduced in the FLUKA geometry very soon.
But I remind you that the question had been asked and answered already 6 years
ago:

http://www.fluka.org/web_archive/earchive/new-fluka-discuss/0266.html

Alberto

On Wed, 12 Oct 2011, Santana, Mario wrote:

> As far as I know It is not possible to define a torus with FLUKA. None of
> the existing body types (http://www.fluka.org/fluka.php?id=man_onl&sub=94) corresponds to a torus.
> Note also that a torus is a quartic (not a quadric) so I cannot be even described by the generic QUA body.
> A way around this is to approach your torus by a series of stacked rings of different width or by a string
> of cylinders at small angles with respect to the neighboring one. Also, I remember that Alberto Fasso had
> developed and implementation of the torus for FLUKA.
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> From: owner-fluka-discuss_at_mi.infn.it [owner-fluka-discuss_at_mi.infn.it] On Behalf Of wuhongli_at_mail.ustc.edu.cn [wuhongli_at_mail.ustc.edu.cn]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 7:43 PM
> To: fluka-discuss_at_fluka.org
> Subject: Difficulty in defining the geometry
>
> Hello everybody:
> I would like to define a torus in the FLUKA, is it possible?
> If yes, what is the input card ?
>
> Thanks for answering.
> Best reagrds
> Hongli Wu
Received on Thu Oct 13 2011 - 16:05:19 CEST