Main Features

Welcome to CST PARTICLE STUDIO, the advanced simulation tool for particle problems.

Main Features of CST PARTICLE STUDIO

Stationary thermal field solver (temperature, heat source, radiation surfaces, external fields) (HEX and TET).
Transient thermal field solver (temperature, heat source) (HEX).
Wakefield computation for charged particle bunches.
Particle In Cell computation in self-consistent transient fields.
Electrostatics field solver (potentials, volume and surface charges, floating potentials).
Magnetostatics field solver (coils, permanent magnets, current paths, external fields).
Eigenmode field solver.
Particle sources on arbitrary shaped surfaces.
Particle point sources.
Thermal coupling for loss distributions of crashed particles.
Space charge limited emission model.
Magnetic, electric, tangential, normal, and open boundary conditions.
Capacitance and inductance calculation.
Forces and torques.
Space charge and particle current calculation.
Isotropic/anisotropic and nonlinear materials.
2D particle monitors on planes and arbitrary shaped surfaces.
Fast and memory efficient FI-method.
Extremely good performance due to Perfect Boundary Approximation (PBA) and Thin Sheet Technique (TST) for solvers using hexahedral grids.
Advanced ACIS based, parametric solid modeling front-end with excellent structure visualization.
Feature based hybrid modeler allows quick structural changes.
Powerful macro language (VBA), OLE automation server.
Expert system based automatic mesh generation with 3D adaptive mesh refinement.
Import and Export of SAT, Step, Autodesk Inventor®, VDA-FS CATIA®, Pro/E®, IGES, NASTRAN or STL 3D CAD data.
Import and Export of DXF 2D CAD data.
Import GDSII and Gerber 2D CAD data.
Import of voxel data models (Human Model Data).
Efficient build-in optimizer. (Powell and Quasi-Newton type, advanced multilevel interpolation schemes)
Parameter Sweeps.