An external circuit model for electromagnetic particle-in-cell simulations

Author

Lin, M.C. ; Zhou, C.D. ; Smithe, David N.

Author_Institution

Tech-X Corp., Boulder, CO, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

21-23 May 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

In this work, an algorithm for coupling external circuit elements to EM PIC simulations is developed. The circuit equation including an external voltage or current source, resistance, inductance, capacitance, and a dynamic load is solved simultaneously with the EM PIC updaters through an instant measured voltage V across the system to obtain the supplied current I for feeding into the system. This external circuit model has been demonstrated and implemented in a 3D conformal finite-difference time-domain PIC code, VORPAL.

Keywords

electromagnetic coupling; electromagnetic field theory; finite difference time-domain analysis; 3D conformal finite-difference time-domain PIC code; EM PIC simulations; VORPAL; capacitance; circuit equation; current source; dynamic load; electromagnetic particle-in-cell simulations; external circuit element coupling; external circuit model; external voltage; inductance; resistance; Electrodes; Integrated circuit modeling; Load modeling; Mathematical model; Plasmas; RLC circuits; Voltage measurement; conformal finite-difference time-domain; electromagnetic; external circuit; particle-in-cell;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC), 2013 IEEE 14th International

Conference_Location

Paris

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5976-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IVEC.2013.6571180

Filename

6571180