Issue |
ESAIM: Proc.
Volume 53, March 2016
CEMRACS 2014 – Numerical Modeling of Plasmas
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Page(s) | 177 - 190 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/proc/201653011 | |
Published online | 01 April 2016 |
Optimization of particle-in-cell simulations for Vlasov-Poisson system with strong magnetic field
1 Institute of Physics of the ASCR,
ELI-Beamlines,
18221
Prague, Czech
Republic
2 Inria Nancy-Grand Est, TONUS Project & IRMA (UMR CNRS
7501), Université de Strasbourg, France
3 IRMA (UMR CNRS 7501), Université de Strasbourg, France &
Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse (UMR CNRS 5219), Université de Toulouse,
France
We study the dynamics of charged particles under the influence of a strong magnetic field by numerically solving the Vlasov-Poisson and guiding center models. By using appropriate data structures, we implement an efficient (from the memory access point of view) particle-in-cell method which enables simulations with a large number of particles. We present numerical results for classical one-dimensional Landau damping and two-dimensional Kelvin-Helmholtz test cases. The implementation also relies on a standard hybrid MPI/OpenMP parallelization. Code performance is assessed by the observed speedup and attained memory bandwidth.
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