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Verification and benchmarking relativistic electron beam transport through a background gas

Computer Physics Communications

Medina, Brandon M.; Grua, Pierre; Cartwright, Keith C.; Hebert, David; Szalek, Nicolas; Caizergues, Clement; Owens, Israel O.; Rhoades, Elaine L.; Gardelle, Jacques; Moore, Christopher H.

It is necessary to establish confidence in high-consequence codes containing an extensive suite of physics algorithms in the regimes of interest. Verification problems allow code developers to assess numerical accuracy and increase confidence that specific sets of model physics were implemented correctly in the code. The two main verification techniques are code verification and solution verification. In this work, we present verification problems that can be used in other codes to increase confidence in simulations of relativistic beam transport. Specifically, we use the general plasma code EMPIRE to model and compare with the analytical solution to the evolution of the outer radial envelope of a relativistic charged particle beam. We also outline a benchmark test of a relativistic beam propagating through a vacuum and pressurized gas cell, and present the results between EMPIRE and the hybrid code GAZEL. Further, we discuss the subtle errors that were caught with these problems and detail lessons learned.

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TYPE Journal Article YEAR 2023
DOIOSTIScopus
Results 951–975 of 96,771
Results 951–975 of 96,771