staticSimionPASim

Simulates the particle trajectories of an ensemble of charged particles in an arbitrary electric potential distribution and electrode geometry, defined by a SIMION potential array. The particles interact by electric particle-particle force (space charge) which is calculated by an serial version of a Barnes-Hut tree.

Simulation configuration description

sim_time_stepsinteger

Number of simulation time steps

trajectory_write_intervalinteger

Interval, in time steps, between writes to the trajectory result file

dtfloat

Time step length in seconds

space_charge_factorfloat

Multiplication factor for particle-particle interaction (space charge)

ion_cloud_init_filefile path

Path to an ion cloud initialization / definition file

potential_array_file: file path

Path to an potential array file defining the electrode geometry / electric potentials in the simulation domain