SIMULATIONS EMPOWERING YOUR INNOVATIONS
John CaryCEO
14:00: INTRODUCTION TO TECH-X AND VORPAL (J CARY)14:30: INTRODUCING NAUTILUS (P STOLTZ)14:50: SIMULATING MEDICAL PLASMAS USING FDTD (A LIKHANSKII)15:10: COFFEE BREAK15:30: AEROSPACE PLASMAS AND (VORPAL/NAUTILUS CO-SIMULATION) (ALEX LIKHANSKII)16:00: VIZUALISATION TECHNIQUES WITH HDF5 FILES (J SMITH)16:20: CCP CHAMBER SIMULATIONS (P STOLTZ)16:50: CONCLUDING REMARKS (J SMITH)
Jonathan SmithTech-X UK Ltd &Cockcroft-Tech-X Industrial Fellow
WELCOME TO THEICOPS 2012VORPAL WORKSHOP
AND DAVID SMITHE AND MING-CHIEH LIN
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What are the plans for today?
•Show how to get answers using Vorpal•Work with you on various plasma modeling
problems•Get your feedback
In this introduction:•Overview of Tech-X•Recent additions to Vorpal•Roadmap for Vorpal
With 18 years of experience, Tech-X’s mission is to provide customers with the best computational software and engineering services to enable their breakthroughs in research, development, design, and operations
www.txcorp.com
• High-performance computational software
• High-performance visualization and HPC application front ends
• Enhancing code performance
• Other development including quality and portability
Our partners and collaborators are at the leading edge of science and technology. They represent a broad spectrum of efforts to discover, describe, predict and exploit the complex behaviors of matter and energy.
Partners and Collaborators
Customers and Commercial Partners
We provide our customers with both off-the-shelf and customized solutions addressing their advanced technology needs.
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Tech-X has a history of discovery and recognition
AVS Innovation Award
Department of Energy Visualization Awards
2008
Tech-X UK Ltd wins 2010 knowledge
business of the year
Crab Cavity Visualization
Far reaching discoveries
Laser-Plasma Accelerator
2011
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Vorpal: Past and Future (Road Map)
•OOPIC Pro•5.0 improvements•5.2 improvements•Road Map
6.0 features7.0 features
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OOPIC Pro has reached its end of life
•All OOPIC Pro features will be supported by Vorpal 6.0, which furthermore has a host of other features (3D, better parallelism, more solvers, …)
•Support will have to be at a volunteer basis after December 31, 2012
•XOOPIC remains available
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Vorpal: Plasma and EM modeling framework
• Broad range of plasma, EM and ES models Particle-in-cell, Boltzmann fluid, Euler fluids Cut-cell algorithms for accurate electromagnetics
in complex geometries• Runs on largest-scale parallel supercomputers,
routinely on > 30,000 node concurrently • Extensive implementations of plasma-material
interaction physics Sputtering Secondary emission, Ionization, recombination, nuclear reactions
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Vorpal: Wide range of applications
• Widely used in government, industry and academia (all projects below with involvement of Tech-X personnel)
• High-energy physics: Laser Wakefield Accelerators• Aerospace: Plasma engines, dielectric barrier
discharges• Photonics: Bandgap structures, meta-materials• Surface interaction: Multipactoring, electron cloud
effects• High-Power Microwave: Cavity optimization,
Magnetrons, Gyrotrons• Semiconductor manufacturing: Surface deposition
reactors• Ion sources: Electron cyclotron resonance ion sources • High energy-density physics: laser fusion, inertial
confinement fusion (ICF)
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Vorpal 5.0 (Sep 2011)
• Improved Visualization Environment•Simulations in Cylindrical Coordinates• Improved Framework for Collisions•Electromagnetic Simulations on GPUs • Improved Restart Performance• Improved Documentation•VorpalComposer (VisIT based
visualization)
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Vorpal 5.2 (March 2012)
• Inclusion of new, improved port macros.•More cylindrical examples• Improvements to particle post-processing•External circuit improvements•Further enhancements to visualization tools.
Improved cylindrical visualizations Improved phase-space plots
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Vorpal 6.0 (expected Aug-Sep 2012)
• Remote control and visualization• Implicit electromagnetics• Improved parallel performance• Modularity• Flexible collision framework to allow
Collisional recombination 1->2 body decay
• Allow user definition of all process rates/cross sections Cross sections Field ionization Secondary electron yield Sputtering
• User definable post analysis
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Vorpal 7.0 (expected Aug-Sep 2013)
• Constructive Solid Geometry
• Input file generation Syntax highlighting Context sensitive help Validation (strong typing) Preview of calculated variables 'Tree view'
• More CAD readers (STEP, SAT)
• Space-charge limited emission (Child Langmuir)
• Coulomb collisions
• Embedded boundary electrostatics
• Higher-performing particles AVX GPU MIC?
• Neutral fluid flow, with fluid heated by the plasma
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We are looking for user input• What do you need?
• What can make your life easier?
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