Forward-adjoint Monte Carlo coupling with no statistical error propagation

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 398-416

  Cramer, S N ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CORRELATION METHODS; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

RADIATION TRANSPORT; STATISTICAL ERROR PROPAGATION;

RADIATION;

EID: 0030284679     PISSN: 00295639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NSE96-A17919     Document Type: Article

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