Title :
Recent improvements to MACH2 and MACH3 for fast Z-pinch modeling
Author :
Frese, Sherry D. ; Frese, Michael H.
Author_Institution :
NumerEx, 2309 Renard Place SE, Suite 220, Albuquerque, NM 87106, USA
Abstract :
Many recent changes in MACH2 have improved the code´s accuracy and speed in Z-pinch simulations. New code diagnostics monitoring energy are also useful in running the code efficiently. The changes to MACH3 are less numerous, though they are more sweeping: MACH3´s grid is now truly three-dimensional and composed of a multiblock structure of arbitrary hexahedral zones; its difference equations have been upgraded to that new mesh. These new capabilities are currently being applied to wire-array Z-pinch problems.
Keywords :
Computational modeling; Magnetohydrodynamics;
Conference_Titel :
High-Power Particle Beams (BEAMS), 2002 14th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Albuquerque, NM, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7354-0107-5