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IDSimF - Ion Dynamics Simulation Framework

Overview

IDSimF is a framework for the simulation of charged particles, mostly molecular ion, including chemical reactions, space charge and interaction with neutral background gas. It is developed by the Institute of Pure and Applied Mass Spectrometry (ipaMS) of the University of Wuppertal (Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany).

IDSimF is intended for the simulation of the dynamics of chemically reactive, non relativistic, molecular ions in the domain of mass spectrometry and ion mobility spectrometry. Typical applications are:

• Simulation of ion trajectories in ion traps and ion focusing elements, e.g. quadrupole devices.
• Simulation of ion trajectories in ion mobility analyzers or differential mobility analyzers (DMS).
• Simulation of ion dynamics in low pressure and atmospheric pressure ion sources.

This is the primary / official repository of IDSimF maintained by ipaMS.

Current development status

IDSimF is in an early development state. Nevertheless, it was already used for many productive simulations and modelling.