Faster and more accurate transport procedures for HZETRN

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 229, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 9397-9417

  Slaba, T C ^a   Blattnig, S R ^a   Badavi, F F ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

HZETRN; Particle transport; Radiation exposure; Radiation transport; Space radiation

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CODES (SYMBOLS); COSMIC RAYS; COSMOLOGY; ERRORS; MANNED SPACE FLIGHT; NUMERICAL METHODS; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIATION SHIELDING;

DETERMINISTIC TRANSPORT; DISCRETIZATION ERRORS; DISCRETIZATION PARAMETERS; HZETRN; LIGHT PARTICLES; PARTICLE TRANSPORT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION TRANSPORT; SPACE RADIATIONS; TRANSPORT CODES;

HEAVY IONS;

EID: 77957750665     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2010.09.010     Document Type: Article

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