Task Introduction#
Currently OpenMC supports two types of variance reduction (survival biasing and weight windows). A detailed description of each method can be found in the documentation.
OpenMC also supports methods of generating weight windows including the Magic Method and FW-CADIS
The notebooks contain all the methods for completeness, however ff you just have time to learn one method then I would recommend the FW-CADIS approach.
The workshop contains the following variance reduction examples:
Filename |
variance reduction technique |
geometry |
mesh type |
|---|---|---|---|
1_shielded_room_survival_biasing.py |
survival_biasing |
shielded bunker |
RegularMesh |
2_shielded_room_single_ww.ipynb |
weight windows |
sphere |
RegularMesh |
3_sphere_iterative_per_run_ww.py |
weight windows |
cube |
RegularMesh |
4_sphere_iterative_per_batch_ww.py |
weight windows |
sphere |
SphericalMesh |
5_shielded_room_single_fw_cadis.py |
survival_biasing |
shielded bunker |
RegularMesh |