Kill Probability of a Gaussian Distributed Cookie-Cutter Weapon Against a Random Uniformly Distributed Point Target within an Ellipse.

摘要

A solution by deterministic methods is described of the problem of computing the single-shot kill probability of a point target at a random point from a uniform distribution over the interior of an arbitrary ellipse in the plane, given that the distribution of shots is uncorrelated bivariate normal with respect to a rectangular coordinate system in the plane, and that the weapon has a cookie-cutter damage function with prescribed lethal radius R. This solution has been programmed at NSWC, Dahlgren Laboratory. The numerical evaluation of a double integral, whose integrand contains the so-called elliptic coverage function, is required. Computer results clearly show the superiority of this solution over a non-deterministic, Monte Carlo method of Weidman and Brunner.