Computational Accelerator Physics 2003: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Computational Accelerator Physics, Michigan, USA, 15-18 [Hardcover]

This volume provides an overview of the state of the art in computational accelerator physics, based on papers presented at the seventh international conference at Michigan State University in October 2002. The major topics covered in this volume include particle tracking and ray tracing, transfer map methods, field computation for time dependent Maxwell's equations and static magnetic problems, as well as space charge and beam-beam effects. The book also discusses modern computational environments, including parallel clusters, visualization, and new programming paradigms. It is ideal for scientists and engineers working in beam or accelerator physics and related areas of applied math and computer science.This volume provides an overview of the state of the art in computational accelerator physics, based on papers presented at the seventh international conference at Michigan State University, October 2002. It covers topics such as particle tracking and ray tracing, transfer map methods, methods for solving time-dependent Maxwell equations and static magnetic problems, as well as space charge and beam-beam effects. The book also discusses modern computational environments, including parallel clusters, visualization, and new programming paradigms. It is ideal for scientists and engineers working in beam or accelerator physics, and related areas of applied math and computer science.Preface Persistent currents in superconducting filaments due to arbitrary field changes in the transverse plane A simple parallelization of a FMM-based serial beam-beam interaction code Accuracy analysis of a 2D Poisson-Vlasov PIC solver and estimates of the collisional effects in space charge dynamics The COSY language independent architecture: porting COSY source files Simulation issues for RF photoinjectors Enhancements to iterative inexact Lanczos for solving computationally large finite element eigenmode problems New numerical methods for solving the time-dependent Maxwell equations BealSk