The Application of Toolkit of Optimization in Designs of Accelerator Magnets

Author

Wu, W. ; He, Y. ; Ma, L.Z. ; Xia, J.W. ; Yao, Q.G. ; Guo, B.L. ; Wu, X. ; Han, S.F. ; Zhang, S.L.

Author_Institution

Chinese Acad., Grad. Univ., Beijing, China

Volume

20

Issue

3

fYear

2010

fDate

6/1/2010 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1827

Lastpage

1830

Abstract

The traditional design of accelerator magnet usually involves many time consuming iterations of the manual analysis process. A software platform to do these iterations automatically is proposed in this paper. In this platform, we use DAKOTA (a open source software developed by Sandia National Laboratories) as the optimizing routine, which provides a variety of optimization methods and algorithms, and OPERA (software from Vector Fields) is selected as the electromagnetic simulating routine. In this paper, two examples of designs of accelerator magnets are used to illustrate how an optimization algorithm is chosen and the platform works.

Keywords

accelerator magnets; high energy physics instrumentation computing; optimisation; DAKOTA; OPERA; Sandia National Laboratories; accelerator magnet; electromagnetic simulating routine; manual analysis process; open source software; optimization methods; software platform; toolkit; vector fields; Accelerator magnets; computer aided software engineering; magnetic fields; optimization algorithm;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8223

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TASC.2010.2041771

Filename

5438842