Multiparticle Monte Carlo Code System for Shielding and Criticality Use.
Version 00 COG is a modern, full-featured Monte Carlo radiation transport code that provides accurate answers to complex shielding, criticality, and activation problems.COG was written to be state-of-the-art and free of physics approximations and compromises found in earlier codes. COG is fully 3-D, uses point-wise cross sections and exact angular scattering, and allows a full range of biasing options to speed up solutions for deep penetration problems. Additionally, a criticality option is available for computing Keff for assemblies of fissile materials. ENDL or ENDFB cross section libraries may be used. COG home page:. Cross section libraries are included in the package. COG can use either the LLNL ENDL-90 cross section set or the ENDFB/VI set. Analytic surfaces are used to describe geometric boundaries. Parts (volumes) are described by a method of Constructive Solid Geometry. Surface types include surfaces of up to fourth order, and pseudo-surfaces such as boxes, finite cylinders, and figures of revolution. Repeated assemblies need be defined only once. Parts are visualized in cross-section and perspective picture views. A lattice feature simplifies the specification of regular arrays of parts. Parallel processing under MPI is supported for multi-CPU systems. Source and random-walk biasing techniques may be selected tomore »
- Publication Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1274513
- Report Number(s):
- COG 11.1; 004589MLTPL00
RSICC ID: C00829MNYCP
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- Software Revision:
- 00
- Software Package Number:
- 004589
- Software CPU:
- MLTPL
- Source Code Available:
- No
- Other Software Info:
- Owner Installation: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Contributors: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California. COG is a high-resolution code for the Monte Carlo simulation of coupled neutron, proton, gamma-ray, and electron transport in arbitrary 3-D geometry. COG will transport neutrons with energies in the range of 10-5 eV to 150 MeV, protons with energies up to hundreds of GeV, and photons with energies in the range of 10 eV to 100 GeV. (COGs energy ranges are limited by the available cross section sets and physics models). Via the EGS4 electron transport kernel, electrons in the range of 10 keV to a few thousand GeV can also be transported. The COG code is a significant upgrade from earlier Monte Carlo transport codes and has been written specifically to make it more versatile, accurate, and easier to use. COG has provisions for calculating deep penetration (shielding) problems, criticality problems, and neutron activation problems, and retains all of the standard capabilities found in other Monte Carlo transport codes. COG uses high-resolution pointwise cross-section databases and makes no compromises in the transport physics, so that the results of a COG run are limited only by the accuracy of the databases used. COG runs primarily on UNIX workstations currently, UNIX workstations from Hewlett-Packard, Sun, Silicon Graphics, Compaq, and IBM are supported. There are also versions for the Power Macintosh and Linux/Intel PCs. COG can also be run concurrently over a network of processors or on an MPP to solve very large problems. KEYWORDS: ACTIVATION; COMPLEX GEOMETRY; COUPLED; CRITICALITY CALCULATIONS; CROSS SECTIONS; ELECTRON; GAMMA-RAY; MONTE CARLO; NEUTRON; PROTON
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