Author: Duffin, D.
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THPAB085 Simulations of Coherent Synchrotron Radiation on Parallel Hybrid GPU/CPU Platform 3915
 
  • B. Terzić, D. Duffin, A.L. Godunov
    ODU, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
  • A. Arumugam, T. Islam, D. Ranjan, S. Sangam, M. Zubair
    ODU CS, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
 
  Funding: National Science Foundation 1535641
Coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR) is an effect of self-interaction of an electron bunch as it traverses a curved path. It can cause a significant emittance degradation, as well as fragmentation and microbunching. Numerical simulations of the 2D/3D CSR effects have been extremely challenging due to computational bottlenecks associated with calculating retarded potentials via integrating over the history of the bunch. We present a new high-performance 2D, particle-in-cell code which uses massively parallel multicore GPU/GPU platforms to alleviate computational bottlenecks. The code formulates the CSR problem from first principles by using the retarded scalar and vector potentials to compute the self-interaction fields. The speedup due to the parallel implementation on GPU/CPU platforms exceeds three oders of magnitude, thereby bringing a previously intractable problem within reach. The accuracy of the code is verified against analytic 1D solutions (rigid bunch) and semi-analytic 2D solutions for the chirped bunch. Finally, we use the new code in conjunction with a genetic algorithm to optimize the design of a fiducial chicane.
 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2017-THPAB085  
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