15–21 Sept 2019
Hotel Hermitage, La Biodola Bay, Isola d'Elba, Italy
Europe/Rome timezone

Cerenkov-free RIP Maxwell solver: dispersionless along X

19 Sept 2019, 18:20
20m
SE (Hotel Hermitage)

SE

Hotel Hermitage

talk WG6 - Theory and simulations WG6

Speaker

Alexander Pukhov (uni duesseldorf)

Description

A new multi-dimensional solver for Maxwell equations will be presented. It rips the volumetric Yee lattice to a transverse plane. The fields locations become Lorentz-invariant. The solver alleviates numerical dispersion for plane waves running along the selected axis and perfectly fits for problems of particle acceleration in plasmas. The solver has a compact local stencil and allows for parallelization along all three dimensions, while no Fourier transformations involved. Stability and accuracy of the solver will be discussed.
The Maxwell solver is free from numerical Cerenkov radiation for relativistic particles running along the selected axis in both directions.

Primary author

Alexander Pukhov (uni duesseldorf)

Presentation materials