Advanced Computational Electromagnetics 3D Parallel (ACE3P)
Advanced Computational Electromagnetics 3D Parallel (ACE3P)
Parallel finite-element electromagnetics for accelerator designACE3P is a parallel finite-element multiphysics simulation suite with integrated electromagnetic, thermal and mechanical modeling. It runs on massively parallel computers, giving large simulations high accuracy and faster time to solution.
Seven solvers, one finite-element framework
Each ACE3P module solves a different part of the accelerator problem on the same unstructured tetrahedral mesh, so a cavity can go from eigenmodes to wakefields, multipacting and thermal load without rebuilding the model.
Omega3P
- Real eigenmodes in lossless or periodic cavities
- Complex eigenmodes in lossy or externally loaded cavities
- Mode damping in dielectric and ferrite
- Linear, quadratic and nonlinear eigensolvers
S3P
- S-parameters of rf components and open structures
- Dielectric and ferrite materials
- Surface impedance on conductor walls
- Absorbing, PML and thin-coating boundaries
T3P
- Transients and wakefields from source excitation
- Moving window for broadband pulses and short beams
- Absorbing and PML boundaries for far fields
- Impedance boundaries for coatings and lossy walls
Track3P
- Tracking in external rf and static fields
- Multipacting and dark current in rf cavities and components
- Field and secondary emission surface physics
- Enhancement counter for multipacting
Pic3P
- Self-consistent particle-in-cell modeling of beam–cavity interaction
- Space-charge dominated devices such as rf guns
- User-specified particle emission model
TEM3P
- Integrated EM, thermal and mechanical effects
- Nonlinear thermal conductivity and heat flux
- Convective boundaries and shell elements for coatings
- Mechanical eigensolver, harmonic and transient analysis
Gun3P
- DC gun modeling
- Electrostatic and magnetostatic solvers
- Particle tracking
- Iterative procedure for convergence
Set up any module in one place
Build input files, mesh Cubit journals, submit to Perlmutter post-process results from a desktop application.
From cavity design to beam dynamics
ACE3P covers the electromagnetic and multiphysics questions that come up across the life of an accelerator structure.
Eigenmodes and S-parameters
Accelerating and higher-order modes, Q and damping in lossy materials, and the scattering matrix of couplers, windows and loads.
Wakefields and impedance
Time-domain transients and wakefields with a moving window for short bunches and broadband pulses.
Multipacting and dark current
Particle tracking in rf and static fields with field emission and secondary emission at surfaces.
Beam–cavity interaction
Self-consistent particle-in-cell modeling of rf guns and DC guns, coupled to beam dynamics with IMPACT.
Thermal and mechanical
RF heating, nonlinear thermal conductivity, structural deformation and mechanical modes, coupled back to the rf fields.
High-performance computing
Unstructured higher-order finite elements and parallel solvers for very large models on NERSC Perlmutter.
Mesh, simulate, analyze
- PreprocessBuild the geometry and tetrahedral mesh in Cubit.
- SimulateRun ACE3P modules on Perlmutter, alone or chained in parameter sweeps and optimizations with LUME-ACE3P.
- Post-processExtract figures of merit with acdtool and visualize fields in ParaView.
Learn ACE3P from the developers
Hands-on workshops walk through every module, from preprocessing to running on NERSC and post-processing, with one-to-one help on your own problems.
Start here
Access, setup and first runs, the graphical interface, worked examples and reference material.
Documentation
System access, environment setup, input file reference and running your first simulation.
Read more →User Interface
The ACE3P GUI for input files, meshing, job submission and results.
Read more →Examples
Eigenmode, driven, wakefield, multipacting and multiphysics cases.
Read more →Resources
Documentation, publications, citation guidelines and support.
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