A deterministic computational procedure for space environment electron transport

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 268, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 2415-2425

  Nealy, John E ^a   Chang, C K ^b   Norman, Ryan B ^c   Blattnig, Steve R ^c   Badavi, Francis F ^b   Adamczyk, Anne M ^d  

^a Dominion   (United States)

^b CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorbed dose; Electrons; LEO; Planetary environments; Space radiation

Indexed keywords

ABSORBED DOSE; COMPLEX SPACE; COMPUTATIONAL PROCEDURES; COMPUTATIONAL SPEED; CONDENSED MEDIA; ELECTRON RADIATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; LEO; MEAN FREE PATH; MONTE CARLO CALCULATION; PLANETARY ENVIRONMENTS; PLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS; SPACE ENVIRONMENT; SPACE RADIATIONS; SPECTRAL DISTRIBUTION; TRAJECTORY APPROACH; TRANSPORT CALCULATION; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

MAGNETIC FIELDS; SPACE PLATFORMS;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 77955709093     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2010.04.014     Document Type: Article

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