EMP (electromagnetic pulse) representational tools for personal workstations

Conference · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:6334996

Riley, A; Shafer, D

The ability to rapidly provide a visual representation of a problem set, its accompanying environment, and the variables that directly impact the analysis is of enormous value to the weapons analyst. Parametric, first-principle tools are directly and immediately usable by the analyst to represent the systems under investigation and the effects on those systems by the weapons under analysis. The three tools described, GEOREP, 3-AXIS, and G RANGE, provide these visual, analytic tools directly to the analyst on personal computer workstations. The simplicity and rapidity with which these tools may be used are especially beneficial to weapons analysts dealing with complex phenomena such as EMP. The potential flexibility of these representational tools is shown through examples of notional weapons applications. Use of GEOREP, 3-AXIS, and G RANGE, which augment, rather than supplant, complex weapons effects physics codes, can help provide the necessary, cost-effective guidance for making decisions on detailed case studies.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 6334996
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-87-1935; CONF-870778-1; ON: DE87011785
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

45 MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, WEAPONRY, AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
450202* -- Explosions & Explosives-- Nuclear-- Weaponry-- (-1989)
COMPUTER CODES
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
COMPUTERS
DIGITAL COMPUTERS
ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSES
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
NATO
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
PERSONAL COMPUTERS
PULSES
RADIATIONS
SIMULATION
WARFARE
WEAPONS