Welcome to the PICLas Documentation!

PICLas is a three-dimensional simulation framework for Particle-in-Cell, Direct Simulation Monte Carlo and other particle methods that can be coupled for the simulation of collisional plasma flows. It features high-order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) and hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) simulation modules for the solution of the time-dependent Maxwell equations and electrostatic Poisson equation on unstructured hexahedral elements in three space dimensions. The code was specifically designed for very high order accurate simulations on massively parallel systems. It is licensed under GPLv3, written in Fortran and parallelized with MPI.

User Guide

• User Guide
  • 1. Installation
  • 2. Mesh Generation
  • 3. Workflow
  • 4. Features & Models
  • 5. Visualization & Output
  • 6. Tools
  • 7. Tutorials
  • 8. Cluster Guidelines
  • 9. Appendix

Developer Guide

• Developer Guide
  • 1. GitLab Workflow
  • 2. Documentation
  • 3. Style Guide
  • 4. Best Practices
  • 5. Troubleshooting
  • 6. Code Extension
  • 7. Useful Functions
  • 8. MPI Implementation
  • 9. Regression Testing
  • 10. Unit tests
  • 11. Compiler Options
  • 12. Developer Tools
  • 13. Performance Analysis
  • 14. Building the AppImage Executable
  • 15. Markdown Examples

References

• References