Object-Oriented Parallel Particle-in-Cell Code for Beam Dynamics Simulation in Linear Accelerators [electronic resource].

Published:: Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Energy Research, 1999.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
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Additional Creators:: Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States. Department of Energy. Office of Energy Research, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information

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In this paper, we present an object-oriented three-dimensional parallel particle-in-cell code for beam dynamics simulation in linear accelerators. A two-dimensional parallel domain decomposition approach is employed within a message passing programming paradigm along with a dynamic load balancing. Implementing object-oriented software design provides the code with better maintainability, reusability, and extensibility compared with conventional structure based code. This also helps to encapsulate the details of communications syntax. Performance tests on SGI/Cray T3E-900 and SGI Origin 2000 machines show good scalability of the object-oriented code. Some important features of this code also include employing symplectic integration with linear maps of external focusing elements and using z as the independent variable, typical in accelerators. A successful application was done to simulate beam transport through three superconducting sections in the APT linac design.

Report Numbers:

E 1.99:la-ur-99-2257
la-ur-99-2257

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Particle Accelerators

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Published through SciTech Connect.
11/13/1999.
"la-ur-99-2257"
SC 99, Portland, OR (US), 11/13/1999--11/19/1999.
Ryne, R.D.; Qiang, J.; Habib, S.; Decky, V.

Funding Information:

W-7405-ENG-36

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