opencl_fdtd

opencl_fdtd is a python application for running 3D time-domain electromagnetic simulations on parallel compute hardware (mainly GPUs).

Performance highly depends on what hardware you have available:

A 395x345x73 cell simulation (~10 million points, 8-cell absorbing boundaries) runs at around 42 iterations/sec. on my Nvidia GTX 580.
On my laptop (Nvidia 940M) the same simulation achieves ~8 iterations/sec.
An L3 photonic crystal cavity ringdown simulation (1550nm source, 40nm discretization, 8000 steps) takes about 5 minutes on my laptop.

Capabilities are currently pretty minimal:

Absorbing boundaries (CPML)
Conducting boundaries (PMC)
Anisotropic media (eps_xx, eps_yy, eps_zz, mu_xx, ...)
Direct access to fields (eg., you can trivially add a soft or hard current source with just sim.E[1] += sin(f0 * t), or save any portion of a field to a file)

Installation

Requirements:

To get the code, just clone this repository:

git clone https://mpxd.net/gogs/jan/opencl_fdtd.git

You can install the requirements and their dependencies easily with

pip install -r requirements.txt

The root directory contains fdtd.py, which sets up and runs a sample simulation (cavity ringdown).

python3 fdtd.py