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madengr on July 24, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: OpenEMS: a free and open electromagnetic field sol...

I went to a defense oriented EM conference about 25 years ago. One of the military guys slams a TWT down on the table and says he'll pay $1M to model this; he was serious. Of course now I can buy CST particle studio. I assume it's feasible now.

carapace on July 24, 2017 [–]

(Traveling-wave tube?)

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(Edit: What a cool device!! I've just been reading up on them and Wowee! I'm in the wrong field. No pun intend.)

madengr on July 24, 2017 | [–]

Yep. Any sort of particle & wave interaction; klystrons, TWT, magnetrons, etc. with nonlinear and thermal effects rolled in. Nasty problems.

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