Research Software

BEST - The Beam Equilibrium Stability and Ttransport (BEST) code is a nonlinear perturbative particle-in-cell (PIC) code designed to study instabilities of intense ion beams in a transport lattice. BEST was developed at PPPL in 1997 and has been significantly upgraded since then. It is written in Fortran 90/95 and uses OpenMP and MPI for parallel operation.

BIC - The BIC code is a particle-in-cell (PIC) code designed to model the propagation of an ion beam from the wall of the fusion chamber to the target. It was developed at LLNL in 1990 and has been significantly upgraded since then. There are two code modules, the transverse-slice model BICxy and the axisymmetric model BICrz.

BPIC - BPIC is a 3D electromagnetic particle code for plasma simulation studies. The plasma interacts with the macroscopic electromagnetic field it produces. The phase space is described as a collection of macroparticles, each representing a large number of real particles. The coupling between the field and the macroparticles is done using the Particle-In-Cell (PIC) technique.

Cloudy and Associates, Photoionization Simulations - Documentation and Files for Cloudy.

CORSICA - The magnetic fusion simulation code and a prototype for an integrated simulation that would solve models for all aspects of tokamak operations.

ES1, XES1, XEM1, SPAM, IBC, PDP1, PDC1, PDS1 and XPDP2 - Many particle plasma codes for bounded plasmas, PIC computer experiments with Monte Carlo collisions. All for desktop computing and complete with graphics. Downloadable via anonymous ftp. Developed at the Plasma Theory and Simulation Group, University of California at Berkeley, US.

Free Software for Atomic and Plasma Physics - URL From: Plasma Laboratory of Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

Hybrid Plasma Equipment Model - Software developed at the University of Illinois for numerical simulation of inductively coupled reactive ion etching reactors.

IBEAM - The Ion Beams for Energy Applications Model (IBEAM) is a systems-level, source-to-target code for heavy-ion drivers for inertial fusion energy.

Particle-in-cell Techniques - A one-dimensional, electrostatic Particle-in-cell code in spherical geometry by Helen Smith.

R.D.Cowan's RCN code - WWW interface to the widely used atomic structure package written by Robert D. Cowan from LANL. URL From: Plasma Laboratory of Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

WARP - An electrostatic code with envelope, PIC, and Vlasov models to examine beam injection and transport. Developed at the Heavy Ion Fusion Virtual National Laboratory.