A family of enhanced Lehmer random number generators, with hyperplane suppression, and direct support for certain physical applications

DOI10.1016/S0010-4655(97)00101-XzbMath0938.65006MaRDI QIDQ1967240

Kenneth G. Hamilton, Iosif G. Dyadkin

Publication date: 20 March 2000

Published in: Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Monte Carlorandom number generatorspseudorandomneutron scatteringpetroleum explorationwell loggingKlein-Nishinanuclear geophysics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Random number generation in numerical analysis (65C10) Computational methods for problems pertaining to geophysics (86-08) Potentials, prospecting (86A20)

Uses Software

• RANSAL
• RANTAUMAR2

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