Dear Paola,
I'm trying to solve the problem referred to about two months ago, as the
original mail showed.
My first step is to test the program difference between FLUKA and MCNP, with
single nuclide as well as simple geometry.
Conditions are as following:
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Geometry: three concentric cylinders with a sphere black hole around.
Source: Isotropic 14.1MeV neutron source, filling inner cylinder of
'Geometry' mentioned above.
Physical quantity calculated: neutron volume flux.
Detect region: outer cylinder of 'Geometry' mentioned above.
Material: 13027.21c in MCNP and '27Al. Aluminium 27 SelfShielded, 296K' in
flair.
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Test results:
FLUKA: 2.4948E-05(flux), 0.04%(error)
MCNP: 2.5327E-05(flux), 0.07%(error)
Relative deviation: 1.5%.
Is the 1.5% deviation acceptable, please?
Besides, when the material changed to Fe, the deviation enlarged to 2.4%
(FLUKA value smaller still). What about this diviation?
Input file of FLUKA and MCNP with material Al, was attached in this email.
I’m wondering if there is any negligence in the input that contributes to
the deviation.
Best wishes
Walker
-----Original E-mail-----
From: "Paola Sala" <paola.sala_at_mi.infn.it>
Sent Time: 2013-1-31 15:14:13
To: wdx456_at_mail.ustc.edu.cn
Cc: paola.sala_at_mi.infn.it; fluka-discuss
Subject: Re: Re: Deviations of flux caculation results by FLUKA and MCNP
Hello
with 14 MeV neutrons in most materials one would expect something better
than 10%, however
- self-shielding could make a big difference
- different choices of databases could make some difference
AND: if I understand correctly, you are testing ALL materials together in a
complex geometry, therefore differences propagate themselves from one region
to another, making it difficult to understand what and where really happens.
Regards
Paola
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> Hi Paola,
>
> The primary particle is neutron with energy 14MeV and the particle I'm
> scoring is also neutron.
> I didn't find any pattern in the diffferences(Really troublesome:£©).
>
> Maybe I should do more careful analysis to find out the true reason.
>
> Then,from your expert view,is it possible that 10% difference of FLUKA
> and MCNP flux results are the right results?(considering material lib
> and software differences)
>
> Thanks for your kindness!
>
> Best wishes,
> Walker
>
>
>> -----Original E-mail-----
>> From: "Paola Sala" <paola.sala_at_mi.infn.it> Sent Time: 2013-1-30
>> 15:39:26
>> To: walker <wdx456_at_mail.ustc.edu.cn>
>> Cc: fluka-discuss_at_fluka.org
>> Subject: Re: Deviations of flux caculation results by FLUKA and MCNP
>>
>> Dear Walker,
>> it is difficult to answer without more information:
>> What is your primary particle? Its energy? Which particles are you
>> scoring?
>> Do you see some pattern in the differences? For instance, do they
>> depend on the position , on the material, or other?
>> Regards
>> Paola
>> > Dear all,
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Recently, I was trying to calculate flux distribution of a model
>> > via
>> FLUKA
>> > and MCNP respectively (in order to verify the correctness of my
>> result).
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > The model was made up of over 100 regions and the materials included :
>> C,
>> > V
>> > , Cr, Mn, Fe, Ta, W, H, He, Li, Pb, Ni, etc.
>> >
>> > About 50 regions' fluxes were scored.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I tried several ways to decrease the relative error. For example,
>> > the
>> same
>> > volume values were input into FLUKA and MCNP for flux calculation;
>> > the primary particles were increased from 1.0e6 to 1.0e7 to 1.0e8;
>> > the selfshielded material in FLUKA was also chosen.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > However, the FLUKA and MCNP results seemed not to match ideally:
>> > about
>> 25
>> > regions had deviation less than 1%; about 20 ones had deviation
>> between 1%
>> > and 2 %; most of the left ones had deviation beside 10% with the
>> > max deviation 19%. Both the max statistical discrepancies of FLUKA
>> > and
>> MCNP
>> > are
>> > no bigger than 1%.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I' m wondering if my calculation result is correct. What's the
>> reasonable
>> > flux deviation of FLUKA and MCNP? How about 10%?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Looking forward to any suggestion.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Best wishes
>> >
>> > Walker
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> Paola Sala
>> INFN Milano
>> tel. Milano +39-0250317374
>> tel. CERN +41-227679148
>>
>
>
>
Paola Sala
INFN Milano
tel. Milano +39-0250317374
tel. CERN +41-227679148
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