Issues in providing expert advice for users of a particle-in-cell simulation code
- Berkeley Research Associates, CA (United States)
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
The fully electromagnetic, 2 {1/2} D, OOPIC simulation code (Object Oriented Particle In Cell) will be demonstrated at this meeting and made publicly available later in the year for use on problems in vacuum electronic design. OOPIC is the product of a three year research effort to implement a sophisticated PIC simulation model with object-oriented programming techniques. In addition to its physics engine, OOPIC possesses a GUI/scientific-visualization system and an expert advisor system to aid users in formulating simulations. Here the authors discuss issues involved in providing expert advice to users of a PIC simulation. The primary function of the expert advisor is to aid users in setting up parameters that correctly specify a simulation. Parameters here can mean geometrical configurations of conductors, emitters, wavelaunchers, etc., that model a particular physical device. Parameters can be numbers related to physical processes--either simple numbers such as the simulation particle mass or structured sets of numbers such as those required to specify a velocity distribution function. Parameters can also relate to choice or control of underlying algorithms.
- OSTI ID:
- 170221
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-950612--; ISBN 0-7803-2669-5
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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