Conveners
MOBR MC14 Digital Twins & Simulation
- Stephane Perez (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique)
- Enrique Blanco Vinuela (European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Timo Korhonen (European Spallation Source)
In this work, we develop a digital twin (DTW) of the Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF6) subsystem on the Z Machine at Sandia National Laboratories. The Z Machine is a premier pulsed power research facility for studying high energy density science, to which SF6 serves as an insulating gas. A DTW can dynamically update alongside its physical counterpart using real-time data, providing a precise estimate...
Particle accelerators are costly, complex machines. Modern light sources in particular cannot reach design performance without a dedicated software stack for commissioning and tuning, validated during design and construction using Monte-Carlo studies and digital twins. As both the software and the twins grow in scope, architecture matters.
We review representative tool stacks, extract...
Virtual Beam Line++ (VBL++) is an advanced nonlinear optical beam propagation code used for the design and operation of high-energy and high-power laser systems. It is the latest tool employed to precisely setup the National Ignition Facility’s (NIF) laser beams and support a broad range of missions from fusion ignition to high energy density science.
VBL++ also plays a critical role in...
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project employs the TANGO Controls framework to manage its telescopes. Within SKA MID, the Dish Local Monitoring and Control (LMC) software integrates dish sub-components into the overall control system. Because hardware availability is often limited, Dish LMC development and validation are heavily based on software simulators derived from Interface Control...
We present the initiation of a community-driven framework for the integration of accelerator digital twins into control systems: Twinac. Few facilities have fully integrated accelerator digital twins like at Cornell’s CHESS. Many facilities have active research to employ surrogate models to aid in operational decisions like at Argonne’s ALS, MSU’s FRIB, SLAC’s LCLS-II, and Fermilab’s...
