Adjoint Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analyses in Monte Carlo Forward Calculations

Abstract

The adjoint-weighted perturbation (AWP) method, in which the required adjoint flux is estimated in the course of Monte Carlo (MC) forward calculations, has recently been proposed as an alternative to the conventional MC perturbation techniques, such as the correlated sampling and differential operator sampling (DOS) methods. The equivalence of the first-order AWP method and first-order DOS method with the fission source perturbation taken into account is proven. An algorithm for the AWP calculations is implemented in the Seoul National University MC code McCARD and applied to the sensitivity and uncertainty analyses of the Godiva and Bigten criticalities.