Fourier-Bessel Particle-In-Cell (FBPIC) v0.1.0

Software · Wed Apr 26 00:00:00 EDT 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20201001.28· OSTI ID:1457128 · Code ID:45357

Lehe, Remi; Kirchen, Manuel; Jalas, Soeren; Peters, Kevin; Dornmair, Irene

The Fourier-Bessel Particle-In-Cell code is a scientific simulation software for relativistic plasma physics. It is a Particle-In-Cell code whose distinctive feature is to use a spectral decomposition in cylindrical geometry. This decomposition allows to combine the advantages of spectral 3D Cartesian PIC codes (high accuracy and stability) and those of finite-difference cylindrical PIC codes with azimuthal decomposition (orders-of-magnitude speedup when compared to 3D simulations). The code is built on Python and can run both on CPU and GPU (the GPU runs being typically 1 or 2 orders of magnitude faster than the corresponding CPU runs.) The code has the exact same output format as the open-source PIC codes Warp and PIConGPU (openPMD format: openpmd.org) and has a very similar input format as Warp (Python script with many similarities). There is therefore tight interoperability between Warp and FBPIC, and this interoperability will increase even more in the future.

• Short Name / Acronym: FBPIC
• Project Type: Open Source, Publicly Available Repository
• Site Accession Number: 2016-152; 7469
• Software Type: Scientific
• License(s): BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
• Programming Language(s): None
• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE

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  Primary Award/Contract Number:

  AC02-05CH11231
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-05CH11231
• Code ID: 45357
• OSTI ID: 1457128
• Country of Origin: United States