Title
Simulation of laser propagation in a plasma with a frequency wave equation
Abstract
The aim of this work is to perform numerical simulations of the propagation of a laser beam in a plasma. At each time step, one has to solve a Helmholtz equation with variable coefficients in a domain which may contain more than hundred millions of cells. One uses an iterative method of Krylov type to deal with this system. At each inner iteration, the preconditioning amounts essentially to solve a linear system which corresponds to the same five-diagonal symmetric non-hermitian matrix. If nx and ny denote the number of discretization points in each spatial direction, this matrix is block tri-diagonal and the diagonal blocks are equal to a square matrix A of dimension nx which corresponds to the discretization form of a one-dimension wave operator. The corresponding linear system is solved by a block cyclic reduction method. The crucial point is the product of a full square matrix Q of dimension nx by a set of ny vectors where Q corresponds to the basis of the nx eigenvectors of the tri-diagonal symmetric matrix A. We show some results which are obtained on a parallel architecture. Simulations with 200 millions of cells have run on 200 processors and the results are presented.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1007/978-3-540-71351-7_40
VECPAR
Keywords
DocType
Volume
q corresponds,tri-diagonal symmetric matrix,block cyclic reduction method,nx eigenvectors,laser propagation,square matrix a,dimension nx,linear system,five-diagonal symmetric non-hermitian matrix,corresponding linear system,full square matrix,frequency wave equation,wave equation,numerical method,numerical simulation,helmholtz equation
Conference
4395
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
1
0.62
References 
Authors
2
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
R. Sentis1103.47
S. Desroziers241.46
F. Nataf310.62