A Sensitivity Study of Thermal Radiation Fluence from a Nuclear Air Burst

Abstract

A sensitivity study was made on four variables which must be specified to compute the thermal radiation fluence in the atmosphere from a nuclear burst. These parameters are: the choice and number of energy bands used to specify the atmospheric attenuation coefficients, the relative importance of scatter, the significance of source (fireball) temperature and the importance of height of burst. These parameters were examined by computing the thermal fluence as the variables were changed, one by one. The number of groups was varied from four to sixteen. The source temperature was examined over a range from 3500K to 8500K and burst altitudes to 30 km were considered.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA008660

Entities

People

  • Joel D. Johnson

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

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Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Absorption Cross Sections
  • Air Force
  • Atmospheric Attenuation
  • Band Structures
  • Computers
  • Emission
  • Energy Bands
  • Equations
  • Height Of Burst
  • Language
  • New Mexico
  • Radiation
  • Scattering
  • Sea Level
  • Thermal Radiation
  • Ultraviolet Radiation
  • Water Vapor

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