A Circuit Particle-in-Cell Coupled Simulation of a Magnetically Insulated Transmission Line System

作者：Wang, Hongguang^*; Peng, Min; Luo, Wei; Li, Yong-Dong; Liu, Chun-Liang

来源：IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 2017, 45(7): 1762-1768.

DOI：10.1109/TPS.2017.2704291

• BERTHA
• coupled algorithm
• magnetically insulation
• particle-in-cell (PIC)
• pulsed power systems

We have developed a circuit particle-in-cell (PIC) coupled model for simulating a pulsed power system, based on a circuit algorithm of a pulsed power supply and a PIC simulation for a magnetically insulated transmission line (MITL) system. The coupled algorithm comprises an external circuit algorithm based on BERTHA and a coupled algorithm for the PIC and circuit interface based on the Mur absorbing boundary condition. In this paper, a simple coaxial MITL with a single linear transformer driver (LTD) was simulated to validate the coupled model compared with PSPICE and BERTHA simulations. The numerical results show that the circuit-PIC coupled model achieved almost the same outputs on the load. The coupled model was then applied to an MITL system driven by ten LTD cavities. The simulation results and experimental results were in agreement, which confirms that the circuit-PIC coupled model could provide a reference for the structural design of experimental apparatuses.

• 出版日期2017-7
• 单位西安交通大学