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Radiation transport codes, like almost all codes, are difficult to develop and debug. It is helpful to have small, easy to run test problems with known answers to use in development and debugging. It is also prudent to re-run test problems periodically during development to ensure that previous code capabilities have not been lost. We describe four radiation transport test problems with analytic or approximate analytic answers. These test problems are suitable for use in debugging and testing radiation transport codes. We also give results of simulations of these test problems performed with an Implicit Monte Carlo photonics code.
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Gentile, N.A. (2008). Implicit Monte Carlo Radiation Transport Simulations of Four Test Problems. In: Graziani, F. (eds) Computational Methods in Transport: Verification and Validation. Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, vol 62. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77362-7_5
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