Using the CAVE virtual-reality environment as an aid to 3-D electromagnetic field computation

Conference · Tue Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1995

OSTI ID:100009

Turner, L R; Levine, D ^[1]; Huang, M; Papka, M ^[2]; Kettunen, L ^[3]

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1. Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)
2. Illinois Univ., Chicago, IL (United States). Electronic Visualization Lab.
3. Tampere Univ. of Technology (Finland)

One of the major problems in three-dimensional (3-D) field computation is visualizing the resulting 3-D field distributions. A virtual-reality environment, such as the CAVE, (CAVE Automatic Virtual Environment) is helping to overcome this problem, thus making the results of computation more usable for designers and users of magnets and other electromagnetic devices. As a demonstration of the capabilities of the CAVE, the elliptical multipole wiggler (EMW), an insertion device being designed for the Advanced Photon Source (APS) now being commissioned at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), wa made visible, along with its fields and beam orbits. Other uses of the CAVE in preprocessing and postprocessing computation for electromagnetic applications are also discussed.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 100009
• Report Number(s): ANL/ASD/CP--85461; CONF-9507112--1; ON: DE95015718
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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