Computer simulation aids researchers at Triumf

Computer simulation has allowed research scientists at Triumf to achieve the tightest specification to date for a magnetic field generated by a pulse forming network.

Opera computer simulation from leading design software house Vector Fields has allowed research scientists at Triumf, Canada's National Laboratory for particle and nuclear physics, to achieve the tightest specification to date for a magnetic field generated by a pulse forming network (PFN).

The 66kV PFN, has a measured ripple in the flat top of only +/-0.3% compared with the +/-1% for state-of-the-art devices previously.

The Triumf team attribute their ability to achieve this to the precision computer simulation from Vector Fields which enabled them to determine a single fr