A geometry modeling system for ray tracing or particle transport Monte Carlo simulation

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 21-30

  Popescu, Lucreţiu M ^a  

^a National Institute R and D of Optoelectronics   (Romania)

Author keywords

Boundary representation; Geometry modeling; Monte Carlo; Particle transport; Robust algorithms

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

PARTICLE TRANSPORT;

RAY TRACING;

EID: 0037448185     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-4655(02)00629-X     Document Type: Article

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