VSim Examples

Overview

These are examples for illustrating the capabilities of VSim.

VSim [VSi] is an arbitrary dimensional, electromagnetics and plasma simulation code consisting of two major components:

• VSimComposer, the graphical user interface.

• Vorpal [NC04], the VSim Computational Engine.

VSim also includes many more items such as Python, MPI, data analyzers, and a set of input simplifying macros.

VSim for Basic Physics Examples

These examples demonstrate the basic solvers for simple, grid-aligned boundary conditions.

These examples can be run with any license.

Basic Examples

• Cylindrical Capacitor (cylindricalCapacitor.sdf)
• Oscillating Dipole Above Conducting Plane (emOscDipoleAboveConductor.sdf)
• Electromagnetic Plane Wave (emPlaneWave.sdf)
• Electromagnetic Particle in Cell (emPtclInCell.sdf)
• Vacuum Electromagnetic Pulse (emPulseInVacuum.sdf)
• Electrostatic Particle in Cell (esPtclInCell.sdf)
• Half-Wave Antenna (halfWaveAntenna.sdf)
• Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability (kelvinHelmholtz.sdf)
• Parallel Plate Capacitor (parPlateCapacitor.sdf)
• Two-Stream Instability (twoStream.sdf)

Basic Examples (text-based setup)

• Magnetic Fields of Wire (bFieldByJT.pre)

VSim for Electromagnetics Examples

These examples illustrate how to solve complex problems in electromagnetics.

These examples can be run with a VSimEM license.

Antennas

• 2.4 GHz Yagi Uda Antenna (YagiUda2p4.sdf)
• Antenna Array 2D (antennaArray2D.sdf)
• Antenna on Human Hand with Dielectric (antennaOnHand.sdf)
• Loop Antenna from a Coaxial Cable (coaxialLoopAntenna.sdf)
• Dipole Antenna (dipoleAntenna.sdf)
• Dipole Above Conducting Plane (dipoleOnConductingPlane.sdf)
• Dish Antenna (dishAntenna.sdf)
• Half-Wave Dipole in Free Space (halfWaveDipoleAntenna.sdf)
• Horn Antenna (hornAntenna.sdf)
• Patch Antenna Far Field (patchAntennaFarField.sdf)
• Phased Array Antenna (phasedArrayAntenna.sdf)
• Antenna on Predator Drone (predatorDrone.sdf)

Electrostatics

• Like-Charge Dipole (esChargedSpheres.sdf)
• Dielectric in Electromagnetics (dielectricInEM.sdf)
• Dielectric in Electrostatics (dielectricInES.sdf)

Photonics

• Multimode Fiber Mode Calculation (multiModeFiberModeCalc.sdf)
• Multimode Fiber Mode Extraction (multiModeFiberModeExtract.sdf)
• Dielectric Waveguide with Gaussian Launcher (dielectricWaveguideGaussian.sdf)
• Dielectric Waveguide Mode Calculation (dielectricWaveguideModeCalc.sdf)
• Gaussian Laser Beam and Photonic Crystal Cavity (photonicCrystalGaussSrc.sdf)
• Dipole Source Illuminating a Photonic Crystal Cavity (photonicCrystalDipoleSrc.sdf)
• Metal Insulator Metal Waveguide using Drude and Lorentz Materials (drudeLorentzMIM.sdf)
• Microring Resonator with Mode Launcher (ringResonatorMode.sdf)
• Microring Resonator with Gaussian Launcher (ringResonatorGaussianMode.sdf)
• Y Splitter (ySplitter.sdf)

Photonics (text-based setup)

• Multimode Fiber with Mode Launcher (multiModeFiberModeLaunchT.pre)

Scattering

• Scattering off Multiple Objects (dielecPlusMetalObjs.sdf)
• Scattering off a Metal Sphere (metalSphere.sdf)
• Scattering off a Metal Sphere with a Dielectric Coating (dielecCoatedMetalSphere.sdf)

Scattering (text-based setup)

• Ground Penetrating Radar (groundPenetratingRadarT.pre)

Other EM

• Spherical Lens (sphericalLens.sdf)

Other EM (text-based setup)

• Specific Absorption Rate (humanHeadT.pre)
• Photonic Crystal in Metal Cavity (phcInMetalCavityT.pre)

VSim for Vacuum Electronics Examples

These examples illustrate how to solve complex problems in vacuum electronics.

These examples can be run with a VSimVE license.

Cavities and Waveguides

• Circular Metal Waveguide Dispersion (circMetalWaveguideDisp.sdf)
• Coaxial Cylinder (coax.sdf)
• Cylindrical Waveguide (cylindricalWaveguide.sdf)
• Pillbox Cavity (pillboxCavity.sdf)
• Rectangular Waveguide (rectangularWaveguide.sdf)
• Rectangular Metal Waveguide Dispersion (rectMetalWaveguideDisp.sdf)
• S-Matrix of Box Cavity (sMatrix.sdf)

Cavities and Waveguides (text-based setup)

• A15 Crab Cavity (crabCavityT.pre)
• Stairstep Cavity in coordinateGrid (emCavityCoordProdT.pre)

Radiation Generation

• Smith-Purcell Radiation (SmithPurcellRadiation.sdf)
• A6 Magnetron 1: Modes (a6Magnetron1Modes.sdf)
• A6 Magnetron 2: Power (a6Magnetron2Power.sdf)
• Field Emitter Array (fieldEmitterArray.sdf)
• Gyrotron Mode (gyrotronMode.sdf)
• Helix Traveling Wave Tube 1: Dispersion (helixTwt1Dispersion.sdf)
• Helix Traveling Wave Tube 2: Impedance and Attenuation (helixTwt2ImpedAtten.sdf)
• Helix Traveling Wave Tube 3: Power Run (helixTwt3PowerRun.sdf)
• Klystron (klystron.sdf)
• 2D Magnetron (magnetron2D.sdf)

Multipacting

• Multipacting Growth in Waveguide (multipactingGrowth.sdf)
• Multipacting Resonances in Waveguide (multipactingResonances.sdf)
• Multipacting Growth Using Prescribed Fields (multipactingGrowthPrescribedFields.sdf)

EmissionT (text-based setup)

• Vaughan Secondary Emission (VaughanSecondaryElecT.pre)
• 2D Laminar Brillouin Flow (laminarBrillouinFlowT.pre)

Other

• Electron Gun (electronGun.sdf)
• Multistage Collector (multistageCollector.sdf)

VSim for Plasma Acceleration Examples

These examples illustrate how to solve complex problems in plasma acceleration.

These examples can be run with a VSimPA license.

Beam Driven

• Electron Beam Driven Plasma Wakefield (electronBeamDrivenPlasma.sdf)

Beam Driven (text-based setup)

• Dielectric Wall Wakefield Acceleration (dielectricwallaccelerationt.pre)
• Electron Beam Driven Plasma Wakefield with Seperable Fields (eBeamDrivenPlasmawSeperableFieldsT.pre)

Laser Driven

• Laser Ionization (laserIonization.sdf)
• Laser Plasma Accelerator (laserPlasmaAccel.sdf)

Laser Driven (text-based setup)

• Colliding Pulse Injection (collidingPulseInjT.pre)
• Ionization Injection (fieldIonizeT.pre)

VSim for Plasma Discharges Examples

These examples illustrate how to solve complex problems in plasma discharge modelling.

These examples can be run with a VSimPD license.

Capacitively Coupled

• 1D Capacitive Argon Plasma Discharge (capacitivelyCoupledArPlasma1D.sdf)
• 1D Capacitive Helium Plasma Discharge (capacitivelyCoupledHePlasma1D.sdf)
• Turner Low Pressure Benchmarks (Turner.sdf)

Capacitively Coupled (text-based setup)

• 2D Capacitive Plasma Chamber (capacitivelyCoupledPlasma2DT.pre)

DC Plasmas

• Drifting Electrons (driftingElectrons.sdf)
• Langmuir Probe (langmuirProbe.sdf)

Inductively Coupled

• 2D Inductively Coupled Plasma Chamber (icpCyl.sdf)
• 2D Inductively Coupled Plasma Chamber With Shapes (icpCylShapes.sdf)

Ion Sources

• Simple Ion Source (simpleIonSource.sdf)
• Penning High Intensity Ion Source (PenningSource.sdf)

Processes

• Corona Discharge 3D (coronaDischarge3D.sdf)
• Negative Ion Beam (negativeIonBeam.sdf)
• Neutral Heat Transport DSMC (neutralHeatTransport.sdf)
• Proton Beam (protonBeam.sdf)
• Single Particle Circular Motion (singleParticleCircularMotion.sdf)
• Townsend Discharge (townsend.sdf)

Processes (text-based setup)

• Neutral Heat Transport DSMC (text-based setup) (neutralHeatTransportT.pre)

Spacecraft

• Coupon Array Charging (couponArrayCharging.sdf)
• Cylindrical Hall Thruster (cylHallThruster.sdf)
• Satellite Surface Charging (satelliteSurfaceCharge.sdf)

Spacecraft (text-based setup)

• Ion Thruster (ionThrusterT.pre)
• Satellite Surface Charging (satelliteSurfaceChargeT.pre)

Sputtering

• Ion Beam Sputtering (ionBeamSputtering.sdf)
• Cylindrical Magnetron Sputtering (cylMagnetronSputtering.sdf)

SputteringT (text-based setup)

• 2D Cartesian Magnetron Sputtering (cartMagnetronSputteringT.pre)

Surface Interactions

• Wafer Impact in Plasma Processing (waferImpact.sdf)