The Theoretical Treatment of Particle Swarms.

Abstract

Particle swarms come into consideration when a group of independent particles move without collision in a force field such that a fluid Hamiltonian can be written to represent the motion. Typical problems from several fields are collected and united under a single theoretical framework. The fields include such problems as fragment distributions from an exploding warhead, micrometeoroid distributions in the vicinity of the earth, charged particle distributions in a magnetic bottle, focussing of photons by heavy stars and the design of a sprinkler system for uniform wetting. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA078218

Entities

People

  • A. L. Arbuckle
  • R. D. Shelton

Organizations

  • Ballistic Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Air Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Angular Momentum
  • Charged Particles
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Current Density
  • Detectors
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Escape Velocity
  • Gravitational Fields
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Mechanics
  • Meteoroids
  • Observers
  • Orbits
  • Particle Flux
  • Particle Trajectories
  • Particles
  • Trajectories

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.
  • Theoretical Analysis.