PIC basics

• Setup
  • Obtain Smilei
  • Compile the documentation
  • Prepare the environment
  • Compile Smilei
  • Run a simulation on your machine
  • Run a simulation on a cluster
  • Tips
• Laser Propagation in vacuum
  • Physical configuration
  • Setup the tutorial
  • Checking your input file in test mode
  • Running the simulation
  • Preparing the post-processing tool
  • Get basic info on the simulation
  • Check laser using Scalar
  • More Scalar diagnostics
  • Plot laser using Field
  • Compare the laser profile with the theory
  • Testing the CFL condition
• Thermal plasma
  • Physical configuration
  • Check input file and run the simulation
  • Preparing the post-processing tool
  • The Field diagnostics using happi.multiPlot
  • The ParticleBinning diagnostics
  • Effect of spatial resolution
• Weibel and two-stream instabilities
  • Physical configuration
  • Check input file and run the simulation
  • Weibel instability: analysis
  • Two-stream instability: analysis
• Units
  • What units are used by the code?
  • Physical configuration
  • Check input file and run the simulation
  • Normalized units in the input namelist
  • Units in the postprocessing
  • SI units in the input namelist