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Particle-in-cell code for plasma simulation
https://smileipic.github.io/Smilei
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LaserOffset reuse #414

Closed Horymir001 closed 3 years ago

Horymir001 commented 3 years ago

Dear colleagues,

is it possible to "recycle" the LaserOffset initiated intensity and phase description at the left boundary? I understand that at first, Thiele's method calculates such description and stores the data to the file LaserOffset0.h5. Then, the data are loaded and the PIC loop is started.

It would be useful to enable using already generated file in other simulation which differs only by plasma parameters (e.g. thicker target, ...). Because that calculation itself is now actually 11% of the total CPUtime in my case.

Is that option missing or it is me who is missing something?

Cheers,

Vojtěch Horný

mccoys commented 3 years ago

Hi I think this is technically possible, but not yet in a user-friendly way. Look at the end of the pyprofiles.py file where the LaserOffset function is defined. You should be able to copy paste the same and use _propagate=False

mccoys commented 3 years ago

This is now available