Thuc Bui Mr. Bui received his M.S. from the University of California at Berkeley and Engineering degree in Applied Mechanics from Stanford University. He performed extensive research in finite element methods, developed and implemented three-dimensional, linear and quadratic tetrahedral and hexahedral elements to solve problems in elasticity, compressible fluids, supersonic viscous flows, electrostatics and magnetostatics. He uses object-oriented programming techniques, design patterns and finite element methods to solve charged particle beam problems. He is the principle author of Beam Optics Analysis (BOA) and was responsible for the development of the particle pusher, emission algorithms, Poisson and Curl-Curl field solvers. Both of these field solvers, using the finite element method, are intimately integrated with the framework developed and maintained by RPI to utilize its novel and world class adaptive meshing facility. For the Curl-Curl solver in magnetostatic problems, he implemented the vector finite element method to strongly enforce the tangential continuity of the field required in such problems. Using hierarchic shape functions, his implementation of the Curl-Curl solver will ease the future upgrade of the field solvers to hp adaptation. Mr. Bui is also an experienced user of the finite element codes Marc, Ansys, Ansoft's Maxwell 2D, HP's High frequency System Simulator (HFSS), and the finite difference codes Poisson, Superfish, and xgun. He is an accomplished microwave and mechanical engineer and designed several products including the inductive output tubes (IOTs) used for UHF television transmission. He has designed electron guns, input and output cavities, and state-of-the-art collectors dissipating 3.5 kW/in2 power densities. He has also consulted for semiconductor equipment industry and was involved in developing Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) for several different programs.

Technical Publications (Partial Listing) T. Bui et. al., Beam Optics Analysis – A 3D Finite Element Charged Particle Code with Adaptive Meshing, Paper 9.3, IVEC, Monterey, CA, USA, 2002. T. Bui et. al., Initial Operation of Beam Optics Analysis, a 3D, Charged Particle Code with Adaptive Meshing, Paper 2A02, ICOPS, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 2002. T. Bui, W. Vogler, L. Ives, M. Shephard, D. Datta, J. Remacle,M. Beal and O. Klaas, Demonstration of Beam Optics Analysis, A 3D Finite Element Charged Particle Code with Adaptive Meshing, 27th Intl Conf. on IRMMW, Sep. 2002, p 223.

Ives | Neilson | Read | Kory | Miram | Bui | Mizuhara | Marsden | Collins | Song

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