Speaker
Description
First released in 2015, the particle-in-cell code Smilei [1] has grown into a high-performance, user-friendly, multi-purpose tool for laser-plasma kinetic simulations. Production runs have started in 2018, and are now commonly carried out by tens of teams across the world.
In the past four years, significant improvements have been brought to the code. Additional physics has been introduced: nuclear reactions, QED effects, relativistic beam initialization, and perfectly-matched layers. Performances have been increased with vectorization technology, new domain decomposition schemes, and reduced models such as quasi-cylindrical geometry, particle merging and envelope solvers. Thanks to a growing team of developers, more features will be included in the upcoming year: GPU support, task-based computing, spectral solvers, Bremsstrahlung radiation, betatron radiation.
In this presentation, I will review the capabilities of Smilei and illustrate them with applications in the field of laser-plasma interaction.
[1] https://smileipic.github.io/Smilei
