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TY - CONF AU - Gee, A.J. AU - Erdelyi, B. ED - Henderson, Stuart ED - Akers, Evelyn ED - Satogata, Todd ED - Schaa, Volker R.W. TI - Smooth Fast Multipole Method for Space Charge Tracking: An Alternate to Particle-In-Cell J2 - Proc. of IPAC2015, Richmond, VA, USA, May 3-8, 2015 C1 - Richmond, VA, USA T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 6 LA - english AB - The fast multipole method (FMM) algorithm was developed by Greengard and Rokhlin in 1987 *. As one of the top ten algorithms of the 20th century, it has been applied in a wide range of fields. The FMM complexity is O(N), where N is the number of articles, allowing for large-scale simulations. However, it includes all the two-body collisional forces, in contrast to other methods such as the popular particle in-cell (PIC) methods. While collisionality can be very important, many applications require only the mean field effects. PIC is frequently used in this regime. Due to recent concerns of unphysical effects of grids, interpolation and other approximations in PIC codes, an alternative based on different underlying assumptions would prove enlightening. For these cases, a smoothed or softened FMM using a Plummer-like smoothing parameter holds much promise. Unfortunately, the original FMM based on analytic expansions of the 1/r-like potentials does not allow for Plummer softening. We present our new soft-FMM employing differential algebras (DA) to obtain the modified expansions. We also compare the performance of the smoothed DA-FMM with examples from PIC simulations. PB - JACoW CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 663 EP - 665 KW - multipole KW - space-charge KW - simulation KW - framework KW - emittance DA - 2015/06 PY - 2015 SN - 978-3-95450-168-7 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2015-MOPMA050 UR - http://jacow.org/ipac2015/papers/mopma050.pdf ER -