RSim Release Notes

The release notes describe new features for the RSim product.

New RSim 3.0 Features

Geometries

  • Can add surface roughness to any geometry
  • Ellipsoid primitives can be specified

Particle Sources

  • Direct specification of surface/volume source geometry
  • Addition of focused angular distribution
  • Addition of weighted 2 column source
  • Automated calculation and use of integral flux for normalization with weighted and 2 column energy spectrums
  • Addition of geometric biasing for sphere surface sources

Tallies

  • Probe Tallies can be created with any material
  • Source Energy Spectrum tally

Visualization

  • Histogram’s can be directly visualized
  • Automatic scaling of colors for all values currently visualized in Data Overview

RSim 2.0 Features

Basic Settings

  • Number of primary particles
  • Number of threads
  • Verbosity
  • Choice of format of CSG: CSG or tessellated solids in GDML

Physics

  • Production cuts
  • Updated physics lists from Geant4

Materials

  • More then 700 materials coming from the material database

Geometries

  • Creating CSG solids
  • Importing CAD objects (GDML, STL, H5M)

Particle Sources

  • Volume and surface sources from CSG objects
  • Point source
  • Plane source
  • Angular distribution
  • Energy spectrum

Tallies

  • Multiple volume and mesh tallies

RSim Documentation

There are three manuals, RSim Installation, RSim User Guide and RSim Examples. The User Guide contains an extensive section on the basic concepts of simulation.

RSim Examples

RSim examples contains many new examples, in particular concerning

  • Medical Applications
  • Human Radiation Shielding Applications
  • Circuit Shielding Applications