Critique of DELFIC's Cloud Rise Module

Abstract

This report discusses the Cloud Rise Module (CRM) of the Defense Land Fallout Interpretive Code (DELFIC), the DOD's reference fallout code. The first section discusses the errors found in the 1979 documentation. These errors have been corrected and further research by the Air Force Institute of Technology will include the corrections listed in this section. The second section will discuss the use of Mathematica in simulating the CRM. This part of the report will describe how a higher level language was used to review the results of DELFIC's CRM and uncover some problem areas. The final part of this report will describe further work as planned by the author in improving the CRM of DELFIC. DELFIC, Nuclear clouds, Fallout, Cloud rise

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA265587

Entities

People

  • Vincent J. Jodoin

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Debugging
  • Department Of Defense
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Flow Fields
  • Heat Energy
  • Language
  • Mathematics
  • Nonlinear Differential Equations
  • Nuclear Clouds
  • Specific Heat
  • Two Dimensional
  • Wind
  • Wind Shear

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  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Business Analytics
  • Nuclear Civil Defense.