A Self Consistent Particle-in-Cell Finite Element Time Domain Solver for Large Accelerator Structures

Dr. A. Adelmann, Paul Scherrer Institut
Prof. Dr. P. Arbenz, Institute of Computational Science

Keywords: time-dependent Maxwell equations, high-order Nédélec elements, particle-in-cell method, high performance computing

Funding: This project is supported by the Research Commission of the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI).


Abstract

This research project focuses on efficiently solving self-consistent Maxwell's equations in large and complex shaped accelerator structures primarily in the light of the first part of the PSI-FEL/LEG1 project. Our prime goal is a quantitative and self-consistent modeling of the injector in the PSI-FEL/LEG project.

A novel parallel multi-scale modeling code will be developed in collaboration with Prof. Peter Arbenz from the Institute of Computational Science (ETHZ), using recent developed knowledge on parallelization, numerical methods and accelerator modeling from previous projects. Particle-In-Cell (PIC) methods combined with novel finite element discretization techniques and parallel implementation will enable us to build up the unique capabilities with respect to quantitative modeling, needed in order to predict with sufficient accuracy beam and field properties in the detailed design and optimization of the PSI-FEL/LEG project.

Benchmarking and code comparison will be done in international collaboration with researchers from Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) and CERN.


Publications

Contact

Dr. Andreas Adelmann
Paul Scherrer Institut
CH-5232 Villigen
Tel.: +41 56 310 21 11
Email: andreas.adelmann@psi.ch

Prof. Dr. Peter Arbenz
Institute of Computational Science
Universitätsstrasse 6, CAB G69.3
CH-8092 Zürich
Tel.: +41 44 632 74 32
Email: arbenz@inf.ethz.ch


Last update: 6 December 2006