Application of WARP3d, a 3-D PIC/accelerator code

Author

Grote, D.P. ; Friedman, A. ; Haber, I.

Author_Institution

Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab., CA, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

3-5 June 1996

Firstpage

199

Abstract

Summary form only given. For the success of heavy-ion driven fusion, it is critical to have a full understanding of the behavior of high-current, space-charge dominated ion beams. The necessity of including the self-fields of the beam makes particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation techniques ideal. For this reason, the three-dimensional PIC/accelerator code WARP3d has been developed to study the creation and propagation of ion beams. Several applications of WARP3d relevant to heavy-ion fusion are discussed. The emphasis is on the utility of three-dimensional, first principles simulations in the applications. Comparisons with experiment are presented.

Keywords

plasma simulation; 3D PIC/accelerator code; WARP3d code; first principles simulations; heavy-ion driven fusion; heavy-ion fusion; high-current space-charge dominated ion beams; ion beams; particle-in-cell simulation; particle-in-cell simulation techniques; self-fields; space-charge dominated ion beams; Coils; Electron beams; Ion accelerators; Ion beams; Laboratories; Laplace equations; Magnetic fields; Plasma devices; Plasma simulation; Plasma transport processes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Plasma Science, 1996. IEEE Conference Record - Abstracts., 1996 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Boston, MA, USA

ISSN

0730-9244

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3322-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PLASMA.1996.550852

Filename

550852