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• Purpose of the code :

  Direct simulation of Friction force based on Molecular Dynamics techniques.

  
  

• Authors :

  C. Nieter

  D. Bruhwiler

  J. Cary

  
  

• Contact persons :

  D. Bruhwiler (TX-Corp)

  
  

• Programming language :

  C++

  
  

• Operating system :

  Linux, Mac OsX and AIX

  
  

• Homepage :

  http://www.txcorp.com/products/VORPAL/
  
  

• Simulation code :

  not available
  
  

• Examples :

  not available
  
  

• Documentation :

  http://www.txcorp.com/pdf/VORPAL/VORPAL_UsersGuide.pdf
  
  

• Special model features :

  
  

• Accelerators for which this code was/is used :

  RHIC-II (BNL), CELSIUS (Uppsala)

  
  

• Benchmarking against other codes :

  Against various models for Cooling force : A. Fedotov et al., Phys. Rev. ST AB 9, 074401 (2006)
  

  
  

• Benchmarking against accelerator experiments :

  Against data from CELSIUS - not published.
  Recent experimental data which used for benchmarking is reported in A. Fedotov et al., Phys. Rev. E 73, 066503 (2006)

  
  

• Special programming features :

  
  

• Comments :

  
  

• References :

  Reference page
  
  

• Categories :

  Electron Cooling
  

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