ppiclF is a parallel particle-in-cell library written in Fortran.
Applications of ppilcF include element-based particle-in-cell simulations, such as Euler-Lagrange mutliphase flow simulation, immersed boundary methods, and even atomistic-scale modeling. At its essence, ppiclF's main purpose is to provide a unified and scalable interface for a user to solve the following system of differential equations
d y
--- = ydot,
d t
which are found in all of the previously given particle-in-cell applications. See documentation website for more details, theory, examples, questions, etc.
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On-the-fly load-balancing of the system of equations across MPI processing ranks based on the coordinates associated with each particle.
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Simple user input of an external overlapping mesh for interactions between particles and their nearby cells.
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Optional fast binned parallel nearest neighbor search between particles within a user specified distance so that more sophisticated user-implemented right-hand-side forcing models can easily be evaluated.
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Algorithms have demonstrated scalability to 100,000 processors, allowing billions of equations to be solved simultaneously.
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Links to both Fortran and C++ external code as a library.
| Zwick, D. (2019). ppiclF: A Parallel Particle-In-Cell Library in Fortran. Journal of Open Source Software. 4(37), 1400. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01400 |
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