Implementation of a hybrid particle code with a PIC description in r-z and a gridless description in into OSIRIS

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DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2014.10.064zbMATH Open1351.82102DBLPjournals/jcphy/DavidsonTATLVFSM15arXiv1403.6890OpenAlexW1972550140WikidataQ59477538 ScholiaQ59477538MaRDI QIDQ728840FDOQ728840

Wei Lü, Weiming An, Asher Davidson, Jorge Vieira, Luis O. Silva, Ricardo A. Fonseca, Adam Tableman, Frank S. Tsung, Warren B. Mori

Publication date: 20 December 2016

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For many plasma physics problems, three-dimensional and kinetic effects are very important. However, such simulations are very computationally intensive. Fortunately, there is a class of problems for which there is nearly azimuthal symmetry and the dominant three-dimensional physics is captured by the inclusion of only a few azimuthal harmonics. Recently, it was proposed [A. Lifschitz et al., J. Comp. Phys. 228 (5) (2009) 1803-1814] to model one such problem, laser wakefield acceleration, by expanding the fields and currents in azimuthal harmonics and truncating the expansion after only the first harmonic. The complex amplitudes of the fundamental and first harmonic for the fields were solved on an r-z grid and a procedure for calculating the complex current amplitudes for each particle based on its motion in Cartesian geometry was presented using a Marder's correction to maintain the validity of Gauss's law. In this paper, we describe an implementation of this algorithm into OSIRIS using a rigorous charge conserving current deposition method to maintain the validity of Gauss's law. We show that this algorithm is a hybrid method which uses a particles-in-cell description in r-z and a gridless description in phi. We include the ability to keep an arbitrary number of harmonics and higher order particle shapes. Examples, for laser wakefield acceleration, plasma wakefield acceleration, and beam loading are also presented and directions for future work are discussed.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.6890




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