Air Force Institute of Technology Dust Cloud Model Vertical Dispersion
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
The Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) has developed and refined a nuclear dust cloud model for modeling nuclear fallout, and the dust mass and radiation encountered by aircraft flying through a nuclear dust cloud. Recently, a question was raised requesting an explanation of why the vertical mass and activity distributions had an anomalous shape for yields above 1 Mt. This report explains that the anomalous shape occurs because the dust cloud model is a discrete numeric model, and not a continuous model.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- 89233218CNA000001
- OSTI ID:
- 2570476
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR--25-26080
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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