Drobot A.T. (ed.). Computer Applications in Plasma Science and Engineering

Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., 1991. X, 457 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-4612-7794-1, e-ISBN13: 978-1-4612-3092-2, DO I: 10.1007/978-1-4612-3092-2.This volume, which contains 15 contributions, is based on a minicourse held at the 1987 IEEE Plasma Science Meeting. The purpose of the lectures in the course was to acquaint the students with the multidisciplinary nature of computational techniques and the breadth of research areas in plasma science in which computation can address important physics and engineering design issues. These involve: electric and magnetic fields, MHD equations, chemistry, radiation, ionization etc. The contents of the contributions, written subsequent to the minicourse, stress important aspects of computer applications.Background and Introduction
Adam T. DrobotParticle Simulation Techniques
Charles K. Birdsall and A. Bruce LangdonDiodes and Magnetic Insulation
Jeffrey P. Quintenz and David B. SeidelThree-Dimensional Particle-in-Cell and Electromagnetic Simulations
Alan Mankofsky and Adam T. DrobotCharged Particle Beam Propagation
Martin Lampe and Glenn JoyceComputer Programs for High-Current Beam Transport in Accelerators
Brendan B. GodfreyThe Physics of Codes
Richard K. CooperThe Numerical Simulation of Accelerator Components
William B. Herrmannsfeldt and Harold HanerfeldNonlinear Analysis and Modeling of Free-Electron Laser and Microwave Devices
Henry P. FreundThe Source Dependent Expansion Method and Radiation Focusing in the Free Electron Laser
Antonio Ting, Philip Sprangle, and Cha-Mei TangInertial Confinement Fusion: Computer Simulation
Robert L. McCrory and Charles P. VerdonComments on Ionization Dynamics, Radiation Emission, and Dense Plasma Effects in Hot Plasmas
Jack DavisPhysical Effects and Numerical Simulation of X-Ray Transport in Plasmas
John P. ApruzeseSimulation of Transport in Tokamaks
Glenn BatemanModels of Plasma Wall Interactions
Douglass E. PostNumerical Models for High Beta Magnetohydrodynamic Flow
Jeremiah U. Brackbill