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Rob Veenhof, CEA Saclay
OPTIMISATION
section, a new command, GRAVITY, and further arguments
in the ROWS listing, have been added.
As a result, compact format cell datasets written by earlier
versions, should be re-created.
FORCES instruction has been further improved.
It now computes the profile of a wire, taking the dependence of
the forces on the wire displacement, and also the gravitational
force, into account.
In addition, the instruction can now deal with certain types of
collective wire movement.
The format of this statement has changed: consult the help file
for information.
MULTIPOLE command has been
corrected.
The command now also prints the 0th order term.
Plotting of the distortion of the magnetic field, due to the difference in susceptibility of the wire material and the gas, used to be disabled by mistake; this has been corrected now.
An option, KEEP-RESULTS, has been added to the
CHECK command to save the surface field in a
matrix.
The warning on non-convergence issued by the routines that compute the transverse and longitudinal diffusion in Magboltz is now only printed if debugging has been requested. The non-convergence is genuine, but the back-up method to calculate these quantities seems to function satisfactorily.
Correction in the gas table plotting routine to handle cases correctly where both the Townsend and the attachment coefficient are uniformly zero.
SINGLE command didn't return the attachment
coefficients correctly.
The command has been fixed.
The ARRIVAL instruction now accepts an option
KEEP-RESULTS to save the x(t) relation as a
set of matrices.
RESOLUTION keyword.
PLOT_TEXT and PLOT_AREA
procedures now respect logarithmic scaling.
INQUIRE_MEMBER
to test the existence of a member within a library;
INTERPOLATE_i;
PLOT_LINE
now accepts an option SMOOTH to plot a smooth line through
a set of points.
garfield.packlib soft link.
On UNIX systems, the shell used for executing UNIX commands
is now by default set to the shell from which Garfield was started.
A shell can also be selected explicitely by the user using the
SHELL command.
The best place to put this command is probably .garfinit.
The Garfield manual is available at URL:
http://consult.cern.ch/writeups/garfield/main.html, for the HTML version,
and at URL:
http://consult.cern.ch/writeups/garfield/main.ps, for the PostScript version.
A set of examples can be found at URL:
http://consult.cern.ch/writeups/garfield/examples/examples.html.