Multicore GamBet

Among available packages for Monte Carlo simulations of electrons and X-rays in matter, GamBet has several unique capabilities:

Definition of 3D geometries in an interactive graphical-user-interface with the option for import from SolidWorks.
Dose records on conformal 3D meshes for accuracy
Option to add 3D electric and magnetic fields from HiPhi and Magnum
Import of electron distributions from Trak and [...]

Automatic movie generation in thermal and electromagnetic codes

In a  previous posting, I described our plan to add automatic movie-generation capabilities to our time-domain codes. We have completed and tested the feature in the 2D TriComp codes TDiff (dynamic heat transport), Pulse (magnetic-field diffusion) and EMP (time-domain electromagnetic radiation). The plots show contour lines of temperature in TDiff, lines of magnetic flux density (B) [...]

Graphical coil display in MagView

In our three-dimensional magnetic field code Magnum, electromagnets are driven by coil assemblies created with the MagWinder utility. A coil assembly is a large set of filamentary current elements to represent windings of any shape or degree of complexity. In previous versions of MagView, the superposition of current element information on standard mesh and facet plots [...]

Keeping your programs up to date

Updates are the dark underbelly of software ethics. Most commercial programs are relatively mature, with sufficient features to satisfy almost all users. Nonetheless, there is an economic conundrum when you make a product that never wears out. So software vendors must continually hype specialized features to create a desire for a new (but effectively identical) product. [...]

Tiny gyroradii and the sorrows of tech help

Most of us see the tech help procedure from the recipient end, but I wanted to share the view from the giver perspective. I recently got a succession of E mail and telephone messages from a user who was trying to complete a Trak solution for electron flow under an intense deadline set by his funding [...]