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Panagos, J. N. P.

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TPAT043 The MICHELLE 2D/3D ES PIC Code: Advances and Applications
 
  • J.J. Petillo, N.J. Dionne, K. Eppley, J. N. P. Panagos, X. Z. Zhai
    SAIC, Burlington, Massachusetts
  • L. C. Chernyakova, J.F. DeFord, B. H. Held
    STAR, Inc., Mequon, Wisconsin
  • B. Levush
    NRL, Washington, DC
  • E.M. Nelson
    LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico
 
  Funding: Office of Naval Research, Naval Research Laboratory.

MICHELLE is a new 2D/3D steady-state and time-domain particle-in-cell (PIC) code* that employs electrostatic and now magnetostatic finite-element field solvers. The code has been used to design and analyze a wide variety of devices that includes multistage depressed collectors, gridded guns, multibeam guns, annular-beam guns, sheet-beam guns, beam-transport sections, and ion thrusters. Latest additions to the MICHELLE/Voyager tool are as follows: 1) a prototype 3D self magnetic field solver using the curl-curl finite-element formulation for the magnetic vector potential, employing edge basis functions and accumulating current with MICHELLE's new unstructured grid particle tracker, 2) the electrostatic field solver now accommodates dielectric media, 3) periodic boundary conditions are now functional on all grids, not just structured grids, 4) the addition of a global optimization module to the user interface where both electrical parameters (such as electrode voltages)can be optimized, and 5) adaptive mesh refinement improvements. Applications illustrating these latest additions will be presented, including a relativistic sheet beam gun, a relativistic MIG gun, and a depressed collector optimization example.

*John Petillo, et al., IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci., vol. 30, no. 3, June 2002, pp. 1238-1264.