NASCAP-2K Preliminary Documentation

Abstract

This report is preliminary documentation for the three-dimensional Nascap-2k spacecraft-plasma environment interactions computer code. Nascap-2k is being developed as a successor to all the aforementioned codes as part of a program sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory and the NASA Space Environment Effects Program. Nascap-2k incorporates all the scientific modules of DynaPAC and uses the DynaPAC database. The following additional modules have been developed under the Nascap-2k program: (1) an Object Definition Toolkit (written in Java); (2) an analysis module (written in C++ and using the Boundary Element Method (BEM)2) for calculating surface charging in Geosynchronous Earth Orbit. Solar Wind or other tenuous plasma environments; (3) a graphical interface (written in Java) for setting up problems and examining results; and (4) a new GridTool program (Java) for building a DynaPAC multiply-nested grid structure.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 22, 2002
Accession Number
ADA420555

Entities

People

  • Ioannis G. Mikellides
  • Myron J. Mandell
  • Victoria A. Davis

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Boundary Element Methods
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Earth Orbits
  • Electric Fields
  • Environment
  • Geosynchronous Orbits
  • Low Earth Orbits
  • Orbits
  • Space Environments
  • Spacecraft
  • Spacecraft Charging
  • Three Dimensional
  • Trajectories

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Plasma Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Space