WarpX documentation

Warning

This is an alpha release of WarpX. The code is still in active development. Robustness and performance may fluctuate at this stage. The input and output formats may evolve.

WarpX is an advanced electromagnetic Particle-In-Cell code.

It supports many features including:

• Perfectly-Matched Layers (PML)
• Boosted-frame simulations
• Mesh refinement

For details on the algorithms that WarpX implements, see the section Theoretical background.

In addition, WarpX is a highly-parallel and highly-optimized code and features hybrid OpenMP/MPI parallelization, advanced vectorization techniques and load balancing capabilities.

In order to learn to use the code, please see the sections below:

• Building/installing WarpX
• Running WarpX as an executable
• Running WarpX from Python
• Visualizing the simulation results
• Theoretical background