NUCLEAR INTERFERENCE STUDIES 2: A PHYSICS CODE FOR THE DYNAMICS OF HIGH-ALTITUDE NUCLEAR BURSTS

Abstract

A computational code is developed for investigating the dynamics of high-altitude nuclear bursts. The code can treat either one- or two-dimensional problems having either plane, cylindrical, or spherical symmetries. Electromagnetic and radiation transport effects are included, as are the effects of charge and current distributions. The numerical procedure computes the change during a time step of a property within a computational cell in terms of the fluxes of the property crossing the faces of the cell during the time step. The fluxes are computed by the method of characteristics. Use of a moving mesh permits the code to follow contact discontinuities in the field properties. Procedures for incorporating nonequilibrium thermodynamics are developed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1968
Accession Number
AD0839355

Entities

People

  • D. H. Archer
  • T. A. Hoffman
  • W. Mcnamara

Organizations

  • General Electric

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boltzmann Equation
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Constitutive Equations
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Differential Equations
  • Electric Fields
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Electrons
  • Equations Of State
  • Flux Density
  • Ionization
  • Magnetic Flux
  • Magnetic Flux Density
  • Partial Pressure
  • Plane Geometry
  • Thermodynamics
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Microwave Engineering.