Aircraft Radiation Code ARC.

Abstract

The Aircraft Radiation Code, ARC, is described for CDC-6600 and IBM 360/370 computers with full FORTRAN compilers. ARC is a fast-running radiation transport program which calculates the crew dose from nuclear weapons, accounting for aircraft attenuation, attitude, flight path, range, yield, fission-fusion ratio, altitude, neutron, air secondary gamma rays, and fission-product gamma rays with hydrodynamic enhancement. ARC requires as input angle-dependent attenauation factors for the aircraft to be obtained from a modified version of MEVDP. Alternatively, empirical attenuation factors may be used when less accurate results are acceptable. Air-transport data are obtained from ATR, or alternatively, from a simplified set of fitted data built into ARC. The aircraft maneuver before and following detonation may be described either in constant-g or constant radius terms. Diagnostic features are incorporated for debugging. Typical problems require 12000 words of core and execute in a few seconds. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 15, 1973
Accession Number
AD0763751

Entities

People

  • Charles W. Marslett
  • L. Glenn Mooney
  • Ron L. Swanson

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Aircrafts
  • Altitude
  • Attenuation
  • Compilers
  • Computers
  • Debugging
  • Detonations
  • Fission Products
  • Flight
  • Flight Paths
  • Gamma Rays
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Radiation
  • Radiative Transfer
  • Transport Ships

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Computer Science.
  • Solar Physics

Technology Areas

  • Space