Speaker
Tom Blackburn
(University of Gothenburg)
Description
Numerical simulations are an essential tool in plasma physics: they help us understand the dynamics of complex systems, interpret experimental results, and design novel radiation and particle sources. This is especially true in the high-intensity regime, where strong-field QED interactions affect, and are affected by, classical, collective plasma processes. In this talk I will give a tutorial overview into how we turn theoretical results into high-performance simulation codes, including the approximations we make, the computational challenges we deal with, the uncertainties we face, as well as some examples of how these simulations are being used in practice.
Author
Tom Blackburn
(University of Gothenburg)
