Estimating the Probability of a Diffusing Target Encountering a Stationary Sensor.

Abstract

In this report two expressions are given for the probability of a diffusing target avoiding detection to time t by a sensor fixed at the center of a square region A. The target is constrained to always remain within A. The first expression results from an approximation to the exact solution of the diffusion equation, and the second from experimentation with a Monte Carlo simulation of the diffusion process.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA157644

Entities

People

  • J. N. Eagle

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Detectors
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Differential Equations
  • Diffusion
  • Equations
  • Heat Transfer
  • Mathematical Models
  • Mathematics
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • New York
  • Operations Research
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • Simulations
  • War Colleges

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.