Reply To: NIMBY FUD

[Francisl]

Warwick wrote:

How do you validate the simulation?

It’s nice to know that we’re working on simulating plasmas better, but how can you validate that the simulation was programmed correctly? As a software developer myself, I know that every piece of code has at least a few bugs. Is there some kind of well known test-case to compare against?

The code for the next iteration will be open source so there will be some scope for interested people to try and spot mistakes for themselves.

There is some data already for example: Dynamics of the structure of the plasma current sheath in a plasma focus discharge.
I’m guessing that researchers will be eager to test comprehensive codes on their machines.