Simulation and analysis of the performance of magnetrons

Current research efforts in the area of magnetrons and CFA´s make extensive use of computer simulation to reduce design time, investigate new design concepts, and examine the performance envelope. Using MAGIC (electromagnetic-PIC simulation software), we have modeled several magnetrons. This includes the cooker magnetron, the industrial heating magnetron, a rising sun magnetron, and an x-band magnetron. We will outline the procedures for obtaining high quality simulation results in an engineering and research environment. Emphasis will be placed on diagnostic procedures, which have exact or close analogs in physical engineering measurement and practice. We will compare the simulation results with the operating results of these production tubes. We will outline the procedures for making cold test measurement in the simulation environment (cavity resonance, Q factor, return loss, insertion loss, etc,) For hot tests, we will compare tube efficiency and performance.