Abstract
In this study, virtual boundary element (VBE) method has been employed in multistage depressed collector (MDC) simulation for high efficiency traveling-wave tubes (TWTs). The basic idea of this method is establishing a mapping relation between the source on the real and virtual boundaries. When calculating the potential of the problem field, the virtual source on virtual boundary is only used, instead of the source on real boundary. We discussed the distance between the virtual and real boundaries and the discrete density of virtual boundary, which are closely related to the calculation accuracy. Based on the VBE method, a new computer aided design code CCAD is developed for the MDC system of high efficiency TWT. The results of simulations performed on an axisymmetric four-stage depressed collector are reported. The advantages of VBE method mainly lie in fast calculation and accurate solution. This is of benefit to designing high efficiency MDC thus developing high efficiency TWT, especially for space TWT.
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