Stationary particle-in-cell simulations on electron and ion diodes

Author

Auer, W.B. ; Stein, E. ; Schrempp, B. ; Westermann, T.

Author_Institution

Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

6/20/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

513

Abstract

The stationary particle-in-cell program system “BFCPIC” has been modified to run on Unix workstations. A new mesh generator “InGrid” producing the boundary fitted grid was incorporated in “AutoCad” and applied to diode meshing. The mesh generated by InGrid can be exported to both the stationary PIC-code “BFCPIC” and the time resolving PIC-code “KADI2D”. For calculating the applied magnetic fields the commercial FEM code “ANSYS” is used. To test the whole program system simulations on a simple electron diode for KALIF-HELIA have been performed. As a second step the simulation of the present applied-B diode was repeated and identical results compared to the old program system were found

Keywords

electron sources; finite element analysis; ion sources; plasma diodes; ANSYS; AutoCad; BFCPIC; InGrid; KADI2D; applied-B diode; boundary fitted grid; diode meshing; electron diodes; ion diodes; magnetic fields; stationary PIC simulation; stationary particle-in-cell simulation; Coils; Computational modeling; Diodes; Electrons; Insulation; Magnetic fields; Mesh generation; Performance evaluation; System testing; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High-Power Particle Beams, 1998. BEAMS '98. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Haifa

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4287-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BEAMS.1998.822491

Filename

822491