On Architecture and Performance of Adaptive Mesh Refinement in an Electrostatics Particle-In-Cell Code

This article presents a hardware architecture independent implementation of an adaptive mesh refinement Poisson solver that is integrated into the electrostatic Particle-In-Cell beam dynamics code OPAL. The Poisson solver is solely based on second generation Trilinos packages to ensure the desired h...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2019-06
Main Authors: Frey, Matthias, Adelmann, Andreas, Locans, Uldis
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Architecture
Electrostatics
Grid refinement (mathematics)
Particle in cell technique
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Summary:This article presents a hardware architecture independent implementation of an adaptive mesh refinement Poisson solver that is integrated into the electrostatic Particle-In-Cell beam dynamics code OPAL. The Poisson solver is solely based on second generation Trilinos packages to ensure the desired hardware portability. Based on the massively parallel framework AMReX, formerly known as BoxLib, the new adaptive mesh refinement interface provides several refinement policies in order to enable precise large-scale neighbouring bunch simulations in high intensity cyclotrons. The solver is validated with a built-in multigrid solver of AMReX and a test problem with analytical solution. The parallel scalability is presented as well as an example of a neighbouring bunch simulation that covers the scale of the later anticipated physics simulation.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1812.03689