Radiation from High Temperature Plasmas. Phase II.

Abstract

A large number of atomic physics and magnetohydrodynamic computer codes have been developed by members of the NRL Plasma Radiation Branch of the Naval Research Laboratory over several years. These codes involve the simulation of complex physical processes in a variety of plasma radiation research investigations. In this research effort, the structure of many of these codes was analyzed to improve the numerical procedures or to speed calculational time by code vectorization. In addition, graphic techniques were developed to improve the display of the results, which is important both to detect coding errors and to elucidate physical mechanisms. In this report, we describe the codes that were improved and present examples of the graphical displays now available for analysis of the calculational results. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA119468

Entities

People

  • Christopher Agritellis

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Atomic Structure
  • Differential Equations
  • Electrons
  • Emission Spectra
  • Energy
  • Equations
  • High Temperature
  • Military Research
  • Physics
  • Probability Density Functions
  • Quantum Numbers
  • Radiation
  • Scattering
  • Simulations
  • Spectra
  • Three Dimensional
  • Wave Functions

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.