NASCAP-2k Version 4.5 User's Manual
Abstract
Nascap-2k is a spacecraft charging and plasma interactions code designed to be used by spacecraft designers, aerospace and materials engineers, and space plasma environments experts to study the effects of both the natural and spacecraft-generated plasma environments on spacecraft systems. This document describes the user interface, how to use the code, and some of the physical assumptions of the computation models included in the code. This manual is designed to be used in several different ways: as a help reference to interface menus, field variables, and actions; as a guide to performing specific tasks such as defining the type of problem to be solved or the particular environment to use; as a guide to start-to-finish performance of typical problems such as charging in a tenuous plasma; and as general documentation of the physics and engineering models implemented in Nascap-2k. Nascap-2k Scientific Documentation describes the physical and numerical models used in the surface charging, potential solution and particle tracking portions of the code.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 31, 2023
- Accession Number
- AD1219613
Entities
People
- B. M. Gardner
- M. J. Mandell
- V. A. Davis