A two-dimensional hybrid code is developed to model the transport of a high-current electron beam in a dense plasma target.The beam electrons are treated as particles and described by particle-in-cell simulation including collisions with the target plasma particles.The background target plasma is assumed to be a stationary fluid with temperature variations.The return current and the self-generated electric and magnetic fields are obtained by combining Ampere’s law without the displacement current,the resistive Ohm’s law and Faraday’s law.The equations are solved in two-dimensional cylindrical geometry with rotational symmetry on a regular grid,with centered spatial differencing and first-order implicit time differencing.The algorithms implemented in the code are described,and a numerical experiment is performed for an electron beam with Maxwellian distribution ejected into a uniform deuterium-tritium plasma target.
A two-dimensional hybrid code is developed to model the transport of a high-current electron beam in a dense plasma target. The beam electrons are treated as particles and described by particle-in-cell simulation including collisions with the target plasma particles. The background target plasma is assumed to be a stationary fluid with temperature variations. The return current and the self-generated electric and magnetic fields are obtained by combining Amp~re's law without the displacement current, the resistive Ohm's law and Faraday's law. The equations are solved in two-dimensional cylindrical geometry with rotational symmetry on a regular grid, with centered spatial differencing and first-order implicit time differencing. The algorithms implemented in the code are described, and a numerical experiment is performed for an electron beam with Maxwellian distribution ejected into a uniform deuterium-tritium plasma target.