Prism Software Tools

Prism focuses on developing easy-to-use tools that are particularly well-suited for government and commercial laboratory research and development, and for graduate and undergraduate student research and education at universities and colleges.

Prism software features user-friendly graphical user interfaces and supporting visualization packages for easy viewing of results. Much of our software is designed to run on multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX.

PrismSPECT is a spectral analysis code designed to simulate the atomic and radiative properties of laboratory plasmas.

With PrismSPECT, users can easily investigate how plasma spectral properties change with plasma conditions.

HELIOS is a 1-D radiation-hydrodynamics code that computes the hydrodynamic evolution of radiating plasmas in planar, cylindrical, or spherical geometry.

With HELIOS, users can simulate the dynamic evolution of laser-produced plasmas and radiatively-heated plasmas.

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Spect3D is a multi-dimensional imaging and spectral analysis package.

Spect3D is typically used to post-process results from hydrodynamics simulations to compute images and spectra that can be directly compared with experimental data.

VisRad is a 3-D view factor (radiosity) code that simulates the reflection, emission, and absorption of light throughout a grid of surface elements.

VisRad includes customized features useful for setting up and simulating high energy density physics experiments at large laser facilities.

PROPACEOS generates frequency-dependent opacity data and equation of state data for use in radiation-hydrodynamics codes.

PROPACEOS generates data for atomic elements and mixtures of elements.

Prism software tools use atomic data generated by the ATBASE code suite. This provides high-quality atomic data for simulating atomic processes and computing detailed spectra.

Our atomic data has been used extensively in the analyses of a wide variety of plasma experiments.

PrismPLOT is a general purpose plot library utilized in Prism's software applications.

PrismPLOT functions both as a stand-alone application and as an API for use within other codes.  PrismPLOT has been developed for cross-platform use.