Daria visits CST
Daria Astapovych is an oPAC Fellow, based at CERN. At the beginning of October 2014 she was on secondment to Computer Simulation Technology AG in Darmstadt, Germany.
CST is a software company with its headquarters in Darmstadt. It develops and markets high performance software for the simulation of electromagnetic fields in all frequency bands. The main working branches are in industries as diverse as Telecommunications, Automotive, Electronics, and Medical Equipment.
CST STUDIO SUITE is one of the company's products and extensively used across the particle accelerator community. It comprises various modules dedicated to specific application areas.
During her secondment, Daria worked predominantly with the packages CST PARTICLE STUDIO, allowing the simulation of the motion of charged particles in electromagnetic fields, and MICROWAVE STUDIO which is targeting microwave RF applications. Below one of the results from the work done during her stay is shown.
Experts from CSTN helped her to master and learn the most important and interesting features of the code quickly. Daria found that the change in activity during her secondment helped her not only to learn something new, but also greatly assisted her in her own project, allowed for personal growth and to establish new professional connections.