On using moving windows in finite element time domain simulation for long accelerator structures

Authors:
Lie-Quan Lee;Arno Candel;Cho Ng;Kwok Ko
Affiliations:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States;SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States;SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States;SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States
Venue:
Journal of Computational Physics
Year:
2010

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Abstract

A finite element moving window technique is developed to simulate the propagation of electromagnetic waves induced by the transit of a charged particle beam inside large and long structures. The window moving along with the beam in the computational domain adopts high-order finite element basis functions through p refinement and/or a high-resolution mesh through h refinement so that a sufficient accuracy is attained with substantially reduced computational costs. Algorithms to transfer discretized fields from one mesh to another, which are the keys to implementing a moving window in a finite element unstructured mesh, are presented. Numerical experiments are carried out using the moving window technique to compute short-range wakefields in long accelerator structures. The results are compared with those obtained from the normal finite element time domain (FETD) method and the advantages of using the moving window technique are discussed.