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A Fast 3D Poisson Solver with Longitudinal Periodic and Transverse Open Boundary Conditions for Space-Charge Simulations

Accelerator Physics 2017-09-13 v1 Computational Physics

Abstract

A three-dimensional (3D) Poisson solver with longitudinal periodic and transverse open boundary conditions can have important applications in beam physics of particle accelerators. In this paper, we present a fast efficient method to solve the Poisson equation using a spectral finite-difference method. This method uses a computational domain that contains the charged particle beam only and has a computational complexity of O(Nu(logNmode))O(N_u(logN_{mode})), where NuN_u is the total number of unknowns and NmodeN_{mode} is the maximum number of longitudinal or azimuthal modes. This saves both the computational time and the memory usage by using an artificial boundary condition in a large extended computational domain.

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@article{arxiv.1610.09522,
  title  = {A Fast 3D Poisson Solver with Longitudinal Periodic and Transverse Open Boundary Conditions for Space-Charge Simulations},
  author = {Ji Qiang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.09522},
  year   = {2017}
}