Three dimensional simulation of cross-field devices and amplifiers

Used the electromagnetic-PIC simulation code MAGIC3D to perform simulations on several cross-field devices. These include an industrial heating magnetron, a high-power rising sun magnetron, the superpower Amplitron, and the baby Amplitron. The purpose of this research effort was to develop simulation procedures and techniques that give good qualitative and quantitative measurements of the performance of this class of device. The process has included ensuring that the simulation methods yield the type of engineering measurement that is useful to the designer and production engineer as well as the researcher interested in the more fundamental aspects of the physics.