SPOCK: A SPICE based circuit code for modeling pulsed power machines
- Maxwell Labs., San Diego, CA (United States). S-Cubed Div.
SPICE is an industry standard electrical circuit simulation code developed by the University of California at Berkeley over the last twenty years. The authors have developed a number of new SPICE devices of interest to the pulsed power community: plasma opening switches, plasma radiation sources, bremsstrahlung diodes, magnetically insulated transmission lines, explosively driven flux compressors. These new devices are integrated into SPICE using S-Cubed`s MIRIAD technology to create a user-friendly circuit code that runs on Unix workstations or under Windows NT or Windows 95. The new circuit code is called SPOCK--``S-Cubed Power Optimizing Circuit Kit.`` SPOCK allows the user to easily run optimization studies by setting up runs in which any circuit parameters can be systematically varied. Results can be plotted as 1-D line plots, 2-D contour plots, or 3-D ``bedsheet`` plots. The authors demonstrate SPOCK`s capabilities on a color laptop computer, performing realtime analysis of typical configurations of such machines as HAWK and ACE4.
- OSTI ID:
- 449495
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960634--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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