NEA-1166 MCVIEW.

MCVIEW, 3-D Radiation View Factor by Monte-Carlo Method

NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM, COMPUTER, DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM OR FUNCTION, METHOD OF SOLUTION, RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM, TYPICAL RUNNING TIME, UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM, RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS, STATUS, REFERENCES, MACHINE REQUIREMENTS, LANGUAGE, OPERATING SYSTEM UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED, OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS, NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS, MATERIAL, CATEGORIES

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1. NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM: MCVIEW2.

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2. COMPUTERS

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Program name	Package id	Status	Status date
MCVIEW2	NEA-1166/02	Tested	18-JAN-2002

Machines used:

Package ID	Orig. computer	Test computer
NEA-1166/02	FUJITSU-GS8400,PC Windows	PC Pentium III 500,IBM RISC6000 WS

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3. DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM OR FUNCTION

MCVIEW analyzes the geometrical view factor between surfaces in three dimensional geometries with or without obstacles for thermal radiation calculation using Monte Carlo method.

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4. METHOD OF SOLUTION: Monte Carlo method.

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5. RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM: None.

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6. TYPICAL RUNNING TIME: 10 seconds on a FUJITSU-GS8400.

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7. UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM: None.

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8. RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS: None.

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9. STATUS

Package ID	Status date	Status
NEA-1166/02	18-JAN-2002	Tested at NEADB

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10. REFERENCES

- T. Ikushima:
MCVIEW: A Radiation View Factor Computer Program or Three-
Dimensional Geometries Using Monte Carlo Method
JAERI-M 86-177 (1986)
- T. Ikushima:
CASKET: A Computer Code System for Thermal and Structural
Analyses of Radioactive Material Transport and/or Storage
Cask
JAERI-Data/Code 98-018 (1998)

NEA-1166/02, included references:

- T. Ikushima:
  MCVIEW2: A Radiation View Factor Computer Program for Three
  Dimensional Geometries using Monte Carlo Method
  JAERI-Data/Code 95-001 (March 1995)

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11. MACHINE REQUIREMENTS

FUJITSU-GS8400: 2000 Kbytes of core memory required.
PC: Windows 95/98, a VGA monitor, an Intel 486 or a Pentium or later processor, at least 16 Megabytes RAM and 1 Megabyte of free disk space is recommended.

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12. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE(S) USED

Package ID	Computer language
NEA-1166/02	FORTRAN-77

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13. OPERATING SYSTEM UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED:
FUJITSU-GS8400: MSP.

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14. OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS

FUJISTU-GS8400: The program is approximately 6000 source steps (including data libraries).

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15. NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS

           Takeshi IKUSHIMA
           Department of Fuel Cycle Safety Research
           Tokai Research Establishment
           Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute
           Tokai-mura, Naka-gun, Ibaraki-ken 319-1195
           Japan

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16. MATERIAL AVAILABLE

NEA-1166/02

MCVIEW2.EXE Executable file
MCVIEW2.FOR Source code
MCVIEW2.DAT Example data
MCVIEW2.LST Example output data
NEA_1166_2.PDF JAERI-Data/Code 95-001 reference in PDF format

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17. CATEGORIES

J. Gamma Heating and Shield Design

Keywords: Monte Carlo method, radiation heat, shielding, thermal radiation.