PlasCom2 Documentation

Introduction

PlasCom2 is XPACC's next-generation multiphysics simulation application, developed as a replacement for the current flagship, PlasComCM. PlasCom2 uses the IX (Illinois Interface to X) toolkit and uses the following internal and third-party packages:

• CMake
• Doxygen
• IX
• MPI
• HDF

PlasCom2 also interfaces to many of XPACC's Computer Science tools through the CS-Tool Unification Framework (CSTUF). Online documentation for CSTUF can be located here.

Documentation Layout

The documentation is broken into several sections to guide users and developers in working with PlasCom2.

• Getting Started with PlasCom2
• Theory
• Numerics
• Integrated Testing

Guides

In addition, there are several guides and XPACC developers may find of use

• How To Set Up Testing for an XPACC development using ABATE
• Doxygen Documentation Guide
• XPACC Coding Guide for C/C++ in PlasCom2