Implementation of a PIC simulation using WebGL

Information

• Publication Type: Bachelor Thesis
• Workgroup(s)/Project(s):
  • Rendering and Modeling
• Date: April 2014
• Date (Start): 17. February 2014
• Matrikelnummer: 1028488
• First Supervisor: Michael Wimmer
• Keywords: WebGL, plasma simulation

Abstract

This project’s aim is to find a WebGL based alternative to the Java implementation of Open- Pixi, a Java-based Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulation software, and to add a third dimension. For this purpose, an existing JavaScript library, three.js, was chosen. A handful of approaches are explored and the resulting prototypes are then compared in terms of speed, as performance is a main concern. A shader-based implementation, the best performing of the prototypes, is then explained in more detail and recommendations for the future development of OpenPixi are given.

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@bachelorsthesis{WEYDEMANN-2014-PIC,
  title =      "Implementation of a PIC simulation using WebGL",
  author =     "Leonard Weydemann",
  year =       "2014",
  abstract =   "This project’s aim is to find a WebGL based alternative to
               the Java implementation of Open- Pixi, a Java-based
               Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulation software, and to add a
               third dimension. For this purpose, an existing JavaScript
               library, three.js, was chosen. A handful of approaches are
               explored and the resulting prototypes are then compared in
               terms of speed, as performance is a main concern. A
               shader-based implementation, the best performing of the
               prototypes, is then explained in more detail and
               recommendations for the future development of OpenPixi are
               given.",
  month =      apr,
  address =    "Favoritenstrasse 9-11/E193-02, A-1040 Vienna, Austria",
  school =     "Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms, Vienna
               University of Technology ",
  keywords =   "WebGL, plasma simulation",
  URL =        "https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2014/WEYDEMANN-2014-PIC/",
}