SBIR/STTR Award attributes
Humans are exposed to electromagnetic (EM) energy constantly, both intentionally and unintentionally. From personnel operating communication and surveillance equipment to high energy radio-frequency tumor ablation. Identifying and quantifying tissue damage caused by these exposures is difficult due to individual human response variability and operating condition unknowns. Many different software tools exist to aide EM device designers in minimizing the thermal damage risk. These tools range from simple power limit regulators to full three-dimensional (3D) physics solvers. All of these tools require a number of parameter inputs, with each parameter having some degree of uncertainty. Dakota is a tool that is designed to perform parametric variation of each of the parameters according to a mathematically rigorous process in order to quantify uncertainty. Stellar Science is developing Galaxy, a tool to simplify the process of using Dakota by providing an easy to use graphical user interface (GUI) for Dakota inputs and by automating batching parameter sets for supercomputer cluster nodes. Stellar Science is also bridging multiple physics-level simulation tools by developing generic thermal damage models that only require temperature history data to identify and quantify thermal tissue damage.
