PTSG code descriptions

Code Description

We have developed the following interactive, real-time, many particle plasmacodes for desktop computing, complete with graphics:

SPAM: A single particle mover, in specified E and B fields; runs on a PC.
ES1, XES1: An electrostatic 1 dimensional, periodic many-particle (PIC) code. Can be magnetized. Described in detail in Plasma Physics via Computer Simulation, by Birdsall and Langdon, McGraw-Hill 1985 and Adam Hilger 1991 (which has the ES1 disk with it). Input files for projects in Chapter 5. Runs on PC's, or on X-11 windows equipped computers.
XEM1: An electromagnetic 1 dimensional code, periodic or bounded. See chapters 6 and 7 in the book above.

We have developed the following plasma device, bounded plasma, computer experiments PIC with Monte Carlo collisions, also for desktop computing (PIC-MCC), complete with graphics.

IBC: Interactive-beam-circuit code; a PIC traveling wave tube, with space charge.
PDP1, PDC1, PDS1 (planar, cylindrical and spherical bounding electrodes): 1d3v, bounded, magnetized or not, including electron and ion collisions with neutrals, external circuit, voltage or current sources. X versions of these programs are also available.
XPDP2: Planar in x, periodic in y, 2d3v, or fully bounded in x,y. R-theta and R-Z versions in development. Not yet released: pdw2 workshop in Innsbruck Austria 15-18 Feb 1995. email: pdw2@langmuir.eecs.berkeley.edu

The preferred distribution of our codes is via anonymous ftp. The files are located at distribution.

Questions, comments mail to:

Prof. John P. Verboncoeur

Or contact:

Professor John P. Verboncoeur
Michigan State University
Electrical & Computer Engineering
428 S. Shaw Lane
East Lansing, MI 48824-1226

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