Resolution of the Vlasov-Maxwell system by PIC Discontinuous Galerkin method on GPU with OpenCL
INRIA Nancy-Grand Est & IRMA, Universite de Strasbourg
hal-00731021, 11 September 2012
@article{crestetto2012resolution,
title={Resolution of the Vlasov-Maxwell system by PIC Discontinuous Galerkin method on GPU with OpenCL},
author={Crestetto, A. and Helluy, P. and others},
year={2012}
}
We present an implementation of a Vlasov-Maxwell solver for multicore processors. The Vlasov equation describes the evolution of charged particles in an electromagnetic field, solution of the Maxwell equations. The Vlasov equation is solved by a Particle-In-Cell method (PIC), while the Maxwell system is computed by a Discontinuous Galerkin method. We use the OpenCL framework, which allows our code to run on multicore processors or recent Graphic Processing Units (GPU). We present several numerical applications to two-dimensional test cases.
September 24, 2012 by hgpu