Efficient Modeling of Particle Transport through Aerosols in GEANT4

Abstract: We present a geometry class for efficiently simulating particle transport through aerosols in GEANT4. It is demonstrated that aerosol granularity can strongly affect this transport and thus a generic aerosol model must respect this granularity, which the presented class achieves by modelling the aerosol as a collection of droplets. For large aerosols, this class is orders of magnitude quicker and less memory intensive than standard granularity-respecting methods to model aerosols in GEANT4. These gains are allowed by simpler voxelization optimization, by only populating droplets relevant to the transport, and by using droplet geometry to consider fewer droplets per calculation. The presented class allows differing aerosol bulk/droplet shape, droplets with structure, and spatially varying droplet position/rotation.