FLUKA Beginner Online Training

5 Oct 2020, 09:00 → 16 Oct 2020, 14:10 Europe/Zurich

Introduction

This school will offer students and professionals working on radiation physics problems a beginner's introduction to the various functions and attributes of FLUKA, a general-purpose code for the Monte Carlo simulation of radiation transport in complex material geometries. The course will also introduce the functionalities of the completely revised user interface Flair3.

The event is hosted online, from Monday October 5 (starting 9 AM CEST) until Friday October 16 (ending at 1 PM CEST), 2020.

Prior Knowledge

No particular experience with FLUKA or similar Monte-Carlo packages is required, however basic knowledge of LINUX/UNIX is necessary, as well as reasonably fluent use of a plain-text editor and the ability to navigate through a file tree. For newcomers, not only to FLUKA but also to Linux, we strongly recommend to have a look into a Linux tutorial (in particular sections 1 to 5 of the outline) in order to be able to profit at maximum from the FLUKA course.

Computers

Participants are expected to have an installation of FLUKA-4.0.1 and Flair 3.1-3 in running order.

check_fluka check_fluka.py check_fluka.sh

Monday, 5 October

09:00 → 09:15 Intro - Opening remarks

09:15 → 10:00 Introduction to FLUKA

01_Introduction_to_FLUKA_2020_online.pdf

10:00 → 10:45 Fundamentals of Monte Carlo simulations

02_Introduction_to_Monte_Carlo_2020_online.pdf

10:45 → 10:55 Break

10:55 → 11:05 Fill MC questionnaire

11:05 → 11:50 Basic input and Flair introduction

03_Introduction_to_Flair_and_basic_input_2020_online.pdf

11:50 → 12:50 Hands-on - Flair

course_basic_handson.flair

12:50 → 13:00 Correct MC questionnaire

Survey_Intro_to_FLUKA_and_MC.pdf

Tuesday, 6 October

09:00 → 10:00 Geometry - Basic

04_Geometry_Basic_2020_online.pdf

10:00 → 11:00 Exercise - Geometry

Ex_Geometry_Basic_2020_online.pdf

11:00 → 11:10 Break

11:10 → 11:20 Fill geometry questionnaire

11:20 → 12:00 Materials

05_Materials_2020_online.pdf

12:00 → 12:50 Exercise - Materials

Ex_Materials_2020_online.pdf

ex_materials.flair

ex_materials_solution.flair

12:50 → 13:00 Correction geometry questionnaire

Survey_Geometry_Basic_2020_online_Oct.pdf

Wednesday, 7 October

09:00 → 09:50 Geometry editor

06_Geometry_Editor_2020_online.pdf

09:50 → 10:50 Exercise - Geometry editor

Ex_Geometry_editor_2020_online.pdf

geometry-exercise-basic-editing-withGE.flair

10:50 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 11:10 Materials questionnaire

11:10 → 11:55 Simple sources and preprocessor directives

07_Simple_sources_and_preprocessor_2020_online.pdf

11:55 → 12:50 Exercise - Simple sources and preprocessor directives

Ex_Simple_sources_and_preprocessor_2020_online.pdf

ex_simple_sources.flair

ex_simple_sources_solution.flair

12:50 → 13:00 Correct materials questionnaire

Survey_Materials_2020_online.pdf

Thursday, 8 October

09:00 → 09:50 Scoring: introduction and USRBIN

08_Scoring_I_2020_online.pdf

09:50 → 10:50 Exercise - Scoring introduction and USRBIN

ex_scoring.flair

Ex_Scoring_I_2020_online.pdf

ex_scoring_solution.flair

10:50 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 11:10 Simple sources and preprocessor questionnaire

11:10 → 11:55 EM interactions and thresholds

09_EM_ionisation_transport_2020_online.pdf

11:55 → 12:50 Exercise - EM interactions and thresholds

Ex_Thresholds_2020_online.pdf

ex_thresholds.flair

ex_thresholds_solution.flair

12:50 → 13:00 Correction simple sources and preprocessor questionnaire

Survey_Simple_sources_and_preprocessor_2020_online.pdf

Friday, 9 October

09:00 → 10:00 Scoring 2

10_Scoring_II_2020_online.pdf

10:00 → 11:00 Exercise - Scoring 2

ex_scoring_II.flair

Ex_ScoringII.pdf

ex_scoring_II_solution.flair

Ex_ScoringII_solution.pdf

11:00 → 11:10 Break

11:10 → 11:20 EM questionnaire

11:20 → 11:55 Magnetic and electric fields

11_Magnetic_and_electric_fields_2020_online.pdf

11:55 → 12:50 Exercise - Magnetic fields

ex_magfield.flair

ex_magfield_solution.flair

Ex_Magnetic_field_2020_online.pdf

Ex_Magnetic_field_2020_online_solution.pdf

12:50 → 13:00 Correction EM questionnaire

Survey_Electromagnetic_interactions_and_thresholds_2020_online.pdf

Monday, 12 October

09:00 → 09:50 Flair - Advanced

11_Flair_Advanced_2020_online.pdf

09:50 → 11:10 Flair advanced - Exercise

Blue-Image.png

Ex_flair_advanced_2020_online.pdf

Green-usrbin-3D.png

LINAC4 Main Dump Conceptual Design.pdf

MainDump.flair

Main_Dump.png

11:10 → 11:20 Break

11:20 → 11:30 Scoring questionnaire

11:30 → 12:00 Advanced geometry

12_Geometry_Advanced_2020_online_v2.pdf

12:00 → 12:50 Exercise - Advanced geometry

advanced-geometry.flair

advanced-geometry-input.flair

Ex_Geometry_Advanced_2020_online.pdf

12:50 → 13:00 Correction scoring questionnaire

Survey_Scoring_2020_online.pdf

Tuesday, 13 October

09:00 → 09:45 Biasing

14_Biasing_2020_online.pdf

09:45 → 10:45 Exercise - Biasing

biasing-exercise.flair

biasing-exercise-solution.flair

Ex_Biasing_2020_online.pdf

10:45 → 10:55 Break

10:55 → 11:05 Biasing questionnaire

11:05 → 12:00 Radioactivity and activation

15_Activation_2020_online.pdf

12:00 → 12:50 Exercise - Radioactivity and activation

activation_exercise.flair

activation_exercise_solution.flair

Ex_Activation_2020_online.pdf

12:50 → 13:00 Biasing questionnaire correction

Survey_Biasing_2020_online.pdf

Wednesday, 14 October

09:00 → 10:00 Advanced sources

18_Advanced_sources_2020_online.pdf

10:00 → 11:00 Medical applications

19_Medical_applications_2020_online.pdf

11:00 → 11:10 Break

11:10 → 11:20 Activation questionnaire

11:20 → 12:50 Hadronic interactions

20_Hadronic_interactions_2020_online.pdf

12:50 → 13:00 Activation questionnaire correction

Suvey_Activation_2020_online.pdf

Thursday, 15 October

09:00 → 10:00 Standard output, common errors and mistakes

16_Standard_output_Common_errors.pdf

10:00 → 11:00 Source routine

17_Source_routine_2020_online.pdf

11:00 → 11:10 Break

11:10 → 11:20 Advanced sources questionnaire

11:20 → 12:50 Hands-on - Source routine

course_source_handson.f

course_source_handson.flair

histo.png

histo.txt

source_layer.f

source_library.inc

source_routine_handson.pdf

source_routine_handson.zip

12:50 → 13:00 Correction - Advanced sources questionnaire

Survey_Advanced_sources.pdf

Friday, 16 October

09:00 → 11:00 Exercise - Secondary beams

Ex_Secondary_beams_2020_extended.pdf

Secondary_Beam_Lines_Exercise_Solutions_2020.pdf

secondary_beam_p1.flair

secondary_beam_p2.flair

11:00 → 11:15 Break

11:15 → 12:10 Overview of advanced topics

21_Advanced_topics_2020_online.pdf

12:10 → 12:25 Conclusion, general Q&A

1D.flair

12:25 → 13:00 Course evaluation