ECsim-CYL: Energy Conserving Semi-Implicit particle in cell simulation in axially symmetric cylindrical coordinates

Gonzalez-Herrero, Diego and Micera, Alfredo and Boella, Elisabetta and Park, Jaeyoung and Lapenta, Giovanni (2019) ECsim-CYL: Energy Conserving Semi-Implicit particle in cell simulation in axially symmetric cylindrical coordinates. Computer Physics Communications, 236. pp. 153-163. ISSN 0010-4655

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Abstract

Based on the previously developed Energy Conserving Semi Implicit Method (ECsim) code, we present its cylindrical implementation, called ECsim-CYL, to be used for axially symmetric problems. The main motivation for the development of the cylindrical version is to greatly improve the computational speed by utilizing cylindrical symmetry. The ECsim-CYL discretizes the field equations in two-dimensional cylindrical coordinates using the finite volume method. For the particle mover, it uses a modification of ECsim's mover for cylindrical coordinates by keeping track of all three components of velocity vectors, while only keeping radial and axial coordinates of particle positions. In this paper, we describe the details of the algorithm used in the ECsim-CYL and present a series of tests to validate the accuracy of the code including a wave spectrum in a homogeneous plasma inside a cylindrical waveguide and free expansion of a spherical plasma ball in vacuum. The ECsim-CYL retains the stability properties of ECsim and conserves the energy within machine precision, while accurately describing the plasma behavior in the test cases.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Computer Physics Communications
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? particle in cell (pic)semi-implicit particle in cellexactly energy conservingaxis symmetry cylindrical problemhardware and architecturegeneral physics and astronomyphysics and astronomy(all) ??
ID Code:
132498
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Deposited On:
09 Apr 2019 15:35
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Yes
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Published
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