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Particle-in-cell code for plasma simulation
https://smileipic.github.io/Smilei
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Thermal boundary condition #721

Open Tissot11 opened 1 month ago

Tissot11 commented 1 month ago

I was curious to know the reason why thermal boundary condition complains about the relativistic temperatures when one could initialize plasma species using relativistic temperatures in Smilei and also particle injectors seem to be capable of doing it. So why there is an issue with the thermal boundary condition and relativistic temperatures?

mccoys commented 1 month ago

I don't think there is a particular issue with relativistic temperature at the boundary other than that it has not been developed in the boundary conditions.

Tissot11 commented 1 month ago

Ok. Just to let you know in connection to the closed issue #704 that indeed there are subtle issues with newer version of Smilei, intel MPI and OpenMPI libraries. I have managed to avoid sometimes these segmentation faults using older version of Smilei < 5.0 but if I enable options like Field Filtering, I see segmentations faults all the time on different HPC facilities using different MPI libraries.