vlasov Package
The vlasov package is a collection of programs for computing
the frequencies and growth rates for single- and multi-bunch modes of
a single beam in a circular particle accelerator. The user describes
the impedance model of the accelerator and some relevant parameters
of the machine. The package can then compute the modes that the
user desires, either at a fixed current or for several currents.
Click here for a description of the kind of output the package can create.
Click here to view a postscript version of the full documentation for the program.
Simply click here, and your browser
will download a tarred (and possibly gzipped) version of the source
code, including the documentation. The current version is 0.2.3, and
was created on 7 November 2001. Unpack the archive, and read
the file called README, which should give you all the
instructions you need to compile the package. Also included will
be the LaTeX source for the documentation. Note that the package is
designed for UNIX systems, and may not work so well on other types
of operating systems.
The package requires a program called
Grace
for viewing graphically the output of the package. Click
here
for more information on obtaining that program.
You should also have
GNU make
for building the program from source.
If you don't use
GNU make,
the Makefiles will probably not work right.
GNU make can be downloaded by clicking
here.
Your site administrator has probably already installed this somewhere;
it is most likely called ``gmake.''
If you are at CERN, the package is already installed. Click here for more information on using the package at CERN. This may be interesting to look at even if you are not at CERN, since it gives a brief description of how to run the program. Click here to obtain one of the example input files described there.
Feel free to contact Scott Berg
<jsberg@bnl.gov> if you have any questions
or find any bugs.