POISSON/SUPERFISH on PC compatibles

Author

Billen, James H. ; Young, Lloyd M.

Author_Institution

Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NM, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

17-20 May 1993

Firstpage

790

Abstract

We have adapted the POISSON/SUPERFISH codes to run on 486 or 386 PCs. The PC version includes features not found in the standard version, including programs for automatically tuning RFQ, DTL, and CCL cavities; a complex version of the RF field solver; memory allocation for temporary data; many line regions for dividing the mesh into fine or coarse sections; full support for multiple-cell DTL cavities; plotting of resonance-search and transit-time data; and on-line documentation. We modified AUTOMESH to generate self-consistent logical and physical coordinates. This new, more robust code greatly reduces the number of crashes in LATTICE caused by ill-formed mesh triangles along boundaries. The codes solve arbitrarily large problems. Each program allows free-format entry of CON array elements, and provides error checking of user entries. Standard release 4 now uses our root finder and convergence criteria

Keywords

beam handling techniques; cavity resonators; physics computing; software packages; tuning; 386 PCs; 486 PCs; AUTOMESH; CCL cavity tuning; CON array element free-format entry; DTL cavity tuning; LATTICE; PC compatibles; POISSON/SUPERFISH; RF field solver; RFQ cavity tuning; coarse mesh; fine mesh; ill-formed mesh triangles; line regions; memory allocation; multiple-cell DTL cavities; resonance-search plotting; root finder; self-consistent logical physical coordinates; temporary data; transit-time data plotting; Algorithms; Computer crashes; Computer errors; Documentation; Frequency; Lattices; Resonance; Robustness; Surface resistance; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 1993., Proceedings of the 1993

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1203-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.1993.308773

Filename

308773