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The HILDA program
Abstract
Although this report is called a program document, it is not simply a user's guide to running HILDA nor is it a programmer's guide to maintaining and updating HILDA. It is a guide to HILDA as a program and as a model for designing and costing a heavy ion fusion (HIF) driver. HILDA represents the work and ideas of many people; as does the model upon which it is based. The project was initiated by Denis Keefe, the leader of the LBL HIFAR project. He suggested the name HILDA, which is an acronym for Heavy Ion Linac Driver Analysis. The conventions and style of development of the HILDA program are based on the original goals. It was desired to have a computer program that could estimate the cost and find an optimal design for Heavy Ion Fusion induction linac drivers. This program should model near-term machines as well as fullscale drivers. The code objectives were: (1) A relatively detailed, but easily understood model. (2) Modular, structured code to facilitate making changes in the model, the analysis reports, and the user interface. (3) Documentation that defines, and explains the system model, cost algorithm, program structure, and generated reports. With this toolmore »
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 6985201
- Report Number(s):
- LBL-31917
ON: DE93001533
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00098
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; 43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; HILACS; H CODES; ALGORITHMS; BEAM TRANSPORT; COST ESTIMATION; DESIGN; HEAVY ION FUSION REACTIONS; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT; OPERATION; SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS; ACCELERATORS; COMPUTER CODES; CONFINEMENT; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTROMAGNETS; EQUIPMENT; HEAVY ION ACCELERATORS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; MAGNETS; MATHEMATICAL LOGIC; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; PLASMA CONFINEMENT; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; 700411* - Inertial Confinement Devices- (1992-); 430100 - Particle Accelerators- Design, Development, & Operation
Citation Formats
Close, E, Fong, C, and Lee, E. The HILDA program. United States: N. p., 1991.
Web. doi:10.2172/6985201.
Close, E, Fong, C, & Lee, E. The HILDA program. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/6985201
Close, E, Fong, C, and Lee, E. 1991.
"The HILDA program". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/6985201. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6985201.
@article{osti_6985201,
title = {The HILDA program},
author = {Close, E and Fong, C and Lee, E},
abstractNote = {Although this report is called a program document, it is not simply a user's guide to running HILDA nor is it a programmer's guide to maintaining and updating HILDA. It is a guide to HILDA as a program and as a model for designing and costing a heavy ion fusion (HIF) driver. HILDA represents the work and ideas of many people; as does the model upon which it is based. The project was initiated by Denis Keefe, the leader of the LBL HIFAR project. He suggested the name HILDA, which is an acronym for Heavy Ion Linac Driver Analysis. The conventions and style of development of the HILDA program are based on the original goals. It was desired to have a computer program that could estimate the cost and find an optimal design for Heavy Ion Fusion induction linac drivers. This program should model near-term machines as well as fullscale drivers. The code objectives were: (1) A relatively detailed, but easily understood model. (2) Modular, structured code to facilitate making changes in the model, the analysis reports, and the user interface. (3) Documentation that defines, and explains the system model, cost algorithm, program structure, and generated reports. With this tool a knowledgeable user would be able to examine an ensemble of drivers and find the driver that is minimum in cost, subject to stated constraints. This document contains a report section that describes how to use HILDA, some simple illustrative examples, and descriptions of the models used for the beam dynamics and component design. Associated with this document, as files on floppy disks, are the complete HILDA source code, much information that is needed to maintain and update HILDA, and some complete examples. These examples illustrate that the present version of HILDA can generate much useful information about the design of a HIF driver. They also serve as guides to what features would be useful to include in future updates. The HPD represents the current state of development of this project.},
doi = {10.2172/6985201},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6985201},
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number = ,
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place = {United States},
year = {Wed Oct 30 00:00:00 EST 1991},
month = {Wed Oct 30 00:00:00 EST 1991}
}