TRIPOLI-5^® Documentation

TRIPOLI-5^® is a continuous-energy neutron transport Monte Carlo code jointly developed by SERMA [1] at CEA [2] and SNC [3] at IRSN [4]. Initially developped for nuclear reactor physics applications, it is capable of simulating fixed source and criticality problems. Its geometric description relies on a constructive solid geometry or on the ROOT library, the nuclear data rely on binary files that can be generated from ACE formatted files. The parallel capabilities of TRIPOLI-5^® rely on a hybrid MPI, OpenMP and CUDA implementations.

The publication for citing TRIPOLI-5^® is

3. Larmier et al., “Preliminary Code-to-code Comparisons for the Implementation of Neutron and Photon Physics in the New Monte Carlo Transport Code TRIPOLI-5^®”, Proceedings to M&C 2023, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.

Examples

In this section, you will find examples in form of a Jupyter notebooks.

• A single isotope bare sphere

Theory

This section will contain the documentation concerning theoretical aspects of the TRIPOLI-5^® Monte Carlo code.

• Introduction
• Collision physics
• Geometry
• Scores

Python API

This section will contain a “user manual” in the form of a Python API description.

• The Python API

Footnotes

[1]

Service d’Études des Réacteurs et de Mathématiques Appliquées

[2]

French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission

[3]

Service de Neutronique et de Criticité

[4]

French Institute for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety