fusion-energy / fusion_neutronics_workflow

Combines open source packages to produce an automated fusion specific neutronics workflow
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feature request - VR #37

Open py1sl opened 2 years ago

py1sl commented 2 years ago

In this very nice looking workflow are there plans to add any automated variance reduction? Magic? You could imagine a check on the tally to determine if passing some metric and if not running some automated VR routines, depending on if global or target based VR is required. Considering OpenMC VR is only just in most recent versions, I guess this might needs OpenMC developments as well.

shimwell commented 2 years ago

Yep Magic is being worked into OpenMC, I guess it is about 2 months away. I had a quick go at the weight windows but it is difficult without Magic. Once Magic is in OpenMC then we can come back to making an example