TECH-X CORPORATION — Department of Energy SBIR Phase I: 02b

Description

DOE has invested significant resources in the development of high-fidelity high-performance physics modeling software such as Geant4. Geant4 could have an enormous impact in industrial design processes, but they are not easily integrated into workflows, which are familiar to engineers. Tech-X will create a framework G4E (“Geant4 for Engineers”) allowing space and medical radiology engineers to use Geant4 through efficient and user-friendly workflows: set up a 3D problem by importing CAD (Computer Aided Design) models into a Graphical User Interface (GUI); explore the physics and geometry parameter space, set up common analysis types and parameters (“scoring”) using textual input: all without the need to program in C++. Tech-X Corporation will implement an application for calculating total ionizing doses based on Geant4; integrate it with automated parameter studies and implement a Graphical User Interface allowing users to run this application and its ensembles. Robust R&D tool funded by DoE will be synthesized in a commercial Computer Aided Engineering software package to facilitate the automatic design of optimal detectors, satellites, and nuclear medicine devices. This development will advance the Digital Manufacturing initiative and enhance US competitiveness through improved product quality and reliability. Commercial Applications and Other Benefits: G4E will streamline automated analysis and design of commercial satellites (weather, communications, entertainment) and medical radiology (cancer treatments and diagnostics). Other applications are radiation analysis and protection for NASA missions and DOD satellites, national security, and detector modeling for DOE’s HEP and NP offices.