A 2D electrostatic PIC code for the Mark III Hypercube
- Jet Propulsion Lab., Pasadena, CA (United States)
- California Univ., Los Angeles, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics
We have implemented a 2D electrostastic plasma particle in cell (PIC) simulation code on the Caltech/JPL Mark IIIfp Hypercube. The code simulates plasma effects by evolving in time the trajectories of thousands to millions of charged particles subject to their self-consistent fields. Each particle`s position and velocity is advanced in time using a leap frog method for integrating Newton`s equations of motion in electric and magnetic fields. The electric field due to these moving charged particles is calculated on a spatial grid at each time by solving Poisson`s equation in Fourier space. These two tasks represent the largest part of the computation. To obtain efficient operation on a distributed memory parallel computer, we are using the General Concurrent PIC (GCPIC) algorithm previously developed for a 1D parallel PIC code.
- Research Organization:
- California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Jet Propulsion Lab. (JPL)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- Department of Defense, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG03-84ER53173
- OSTI ID:
- 10114868
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9004159-10; ON: DE95005479; BR: 35AT05000/AT0520210; CNN: NAS7-918
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 5. distributed memory computing conference,Charleston, SC (United States),8-12 Apr 1990; Other Information: PBD: [1990]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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