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Giovanni Lapenta edited this page Feb 3, 2023 · 27 revisions

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Installation and Running:

Please refer to the quick user's guide to iPic3D.

If you're new to GitHub, and want to contribute to this project, here you can find a developers guide on how to work with iPic3D in GitHub.

First steps with iPic3D:

We recommend first time users to complete the GEM Challenge (an implementation of the famous simulation challenge that changed the history of reconnection: Birn, J., et al. "Geospace Environmental Modeling (GEM) magnetic reconnection challenge." Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 106.A3 (2001): 3715-3719.

Methods behind iPic3D:

If you are interested in the methods used by iPic3D, a description of the Particle in Cell method and of the methods used in iPic3D was presented at the School in Les Houches on May 2016.

Visualisation of iPic3D output:

The code saves the output in two ways:

  1. WriteMethod = default saves the data for each processor in hdf5 files. The directory postprocessing_tools has tools to combine them and convert them to other formats
  2. WriteMethod = h5hut combines and saves the data of all processors to a single hdf5 file (one for the fields and one for the particles).
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