<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Eddie,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Yes, thank you. The radiation source used in my experiment has a defined temperature, but due to geometric effects, some photons are lost, resulting in lower intensity reaching the target compared to the emitted radiation. My objective is to reduce the energy deposition accordingly without altering the source's radiation temperature, as changing the temperature would produce a different energy deposition profile within the target. For instance, photons from a 1 keV blackbody source penetrate deeper into the target than photons from a 0.1 keV source. so changing urad() would basically change the energy flux for that group but transport and absorption would stay the same since it's wavelength dependant. Does that make sense?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Regards,</div><div>Youssef</div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</i></div><div><b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#999999">Youssef Abouhussien</font></b></div><i style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#999999">Research Assistant</font></i><div><i style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#999999">Doctoral Student</font></i></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#999999">Virginia Commonwealth University</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#999999">Dept. of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering</font></span><br></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jan 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM Hansen, Eddie <<a href="mailto:ehansen@pas.rochester.edu" target="_blank">ehansen@pas.rochester.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">I’m not sure exactly what you’re trying to accomplish. Multi-group radiation transport is not independent of absorption or emission. Transport, absorption, and emission are all solved simultaneously per radiation
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Changing urad_tot in that routine won’t actually do anything since that variable is not actually passed out of the subroutine. The important one is urad() which is the radiation energy density per group. If
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">You would make changes in RadTrans_mgdUFromT to make the Dirichlet BC work the way you want it to, but you would also have to make corresponding changes in RadTrans.F90 to make the emission term consistent.
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<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, January 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Hansen, Eddie <<a href="mailto:ehansen@pas.rochester.edu" target="_blank">ehansen@pas.rochester.edu</a>><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for your email. I still want the radiation transport (hence wavelengths of the photons) to be carried out at a specific temperature. If I modified "<span style="color:red">urad_tot = urad_tot + urad(g)"</span> from
<span style="color:blue">RadTrans_mgdUFromT.90</span> file and multiplied it by a constant to decrease the energy deposited to match the intensity i have in mind; would that work? Thanks.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Hi Youssef,</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">The BC for RadSlab is not spatially-varying; it is just a single radiation temperature along the entire Yl boundary (the “dirichlet” boundary). There
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">If you have a specific intensity in mind, then you’d have to calculate what temperature that would be (e.g., I ~ T^4 for a blackbody).</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:flash-users@flash.rochester.edu" target="_blank">flash-users@flash.rochester.edu</a> <<a href="mailto:flash-users@flash.rochester.edu" target="_blank">flash-users@flash.rochester.edu</a>><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In RadSlab example for X-rays ablation, how can you specify the intensity? usually for blackbody source it's specified by the radiation temperature (cant change that for radiation
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