4 papers
A noise-robust Monte Carlo method for electric field calculations in EMC3
William De Deyn, Ruben De Wolf, Vince Maes +1
EMC3 is a state-of-the-art 3D Monte Carlo code for plasma edge transport in stellarator configurations, but it does not yet treat the drift self-consistently. Computin…
Fluid boundary conditions in kinetic-diffusion Monte Carlo
Thijs Steel, Vince Maes, Giovanni Samaey
The Kinetic-Diffusion Monte Carlo (KDMC) method is a powerful tool for simulating neutral particles in fusion reactors. It is a hybrid fluid-kinetic method that is significantly fa…
Kinetic-Diffusion-Rotation Algorithm for Dose Estimation in Electron Beam Therapy
Klaas Willems, Vince Maes, Zhirui Tang +1
Monte Carlo methods are state-of-the-art when it comes to dosimetric computations in radiotherapy. However, the execution time of these methods suffers in high-collisional regimes.…
Predicting the statistical error of analog particle tracing Monte Carlo
Vince Maes, Ignace Bossuyt, Hannes Vandecasteele +4
Large particle systems are often described by high-dimensional (linear) kinetic equations that are simulated using Monte Carlo methods for which the asymptotic convergence rate is…