Simulating Transient Effects of Pulsed Beams on Beam Intercepting Devices

The development in the physics community towards higher beam power through the possibilities of particle accelerators lead to challenges for the developers of elements which are exposed to effect of particle beams (beam intercepting devices = BIDs). For the design of BIDs, the increasing heat load onto these devices due to energetic and focused beams and - in most cases - their highly pulsed nature has to be taken into account. The physics requirements are sometimes opposed to the current state of the art. As one possibility of many in combining the different aspects for these ambitious demands, two highly developed computer programs, namely FLUKA and ANSYS AUTODYN, were joined for this dissertation. The former is a widely enhanced Monte-Carlo-code which specializes on the interaction of particles with static matter, while the latter is a versatile explicit code for the simulation of highly dynamic processes. Both computer programs were developed intensively over years and are still continuously enhanced in order to achieve their best potential. As a consequence of their separate development histories, their combination requires a large amount of work - at the physics limits of their application as well as at the frontier of computing technology. The current work did not touch all different points needed for a full integration, but it is a first step towards their coupling within a feasible time frame. For the simulation of metallic targets irradiated with highly energetic uranium ions different material models have been combined and one parameter describing the damage of the material was varied. In the case of two copper targets, this procedure led to a qualitative agreement between simulations and experimental results.