Various fixes and updates in documentation

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Paul Romano 2019-10-04 14:00:22 -05:00
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settings.electron_treatment = 'led'
.. warning::
Currently, collision stopping powers used in the TTB approximation come from
the `NIST ESTAR database`_, which provides data for each element calculated
using by default the material density at standard temperature and pressure.
In OpenMC, stopping powers for compounds are calculated from this elemental
data using Bragg's additivity rule. However, this is not a good
approximation --- the collision stopping power is a function of certain
quantities, such as the mean excitation energy and particularly the density
effect correction, that depend on material properties. Data for constituent
elements in a compound cannot simply be summed together, but rather these
quantities should be calculated for the material. This treatment will be
especially poor when the density of a material is different from the
densities used in the NIST data.
.. note::
Some features related to photon transport are not currently implemented,
including:
* Tallying photon energy deposition.
* Properly accounting for energy deposition in coupled n-p calculations.
* Generating a photon source from a neutron calculation that can be used
for a later fixed source photon calculation.
* Photoneutron reactions.