The RMF (Rotating Magnetic Field) code is designed to calculate the motion of a charged particle in a given electromagnetic field. It integrates Hamilton’s equations in cylindrical coordinates using an adaptive predictor-corrector double-precision variable-coefficient ordinary differential equation solver for speed and accuracy. RMF has multiple capabilities for the field. Particle motion is initialized by specifying the position and velocity vectors. The six-dimensional state vector and derived quantities are saved as functions of time. A post-processing graphics code, XDRAW, is used on the stored output to plot up to 12 windows of any two quantities using different colors to denote successive time intervals. Multiple cases of RMF may be run in parallel and perform data mining on the results. Recent features are a synthetic diagnostic for simulating the observations of charge-exchange-neutral energy distributions and RF grids to explore a Fermi acceleration parallel to static magnetic fields.
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August 2022
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August 10 2022
Simulating single-particle dynamics in magnetized plasmas: The RMF code Available to Purchase
A. H. Glasser
S. A. Cohen
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E-mail: [email protected]
b)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: [email protected]
Note: This paper is part of the Special Topic on Proceedings of the 24th Topical Conference on High-Temperature Plasma Diagnostics.
Rev. Sci. Instrum. 93, 083506 (2022)
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Received:
June 02 2022
Accepted:
June 30 2022
Citation
A. H. GlasserS. A. Cohen; Simulating single-particle dynamics in magnetized plasmas: The RMF code. Rev. Sci. Instrum. 1 August 2022; 93 (8): 083506. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0101665
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