// ******************************************************************** // * License and Disclaimer * // * * // * The Geant4 software is copyright of the Copyright Holders of * // * the Geant4 Collaboration. It is provided under the terms and * // * conditions of the Geant4 Software License, included in the file * // * LICENSE and available at http://cern.ch/geant4/license . These * // * include a list of copyright holders. * // * * // * Neither the authors of this software system, nor their employing * // * institutes,nor the agencies providing financial support for this * // * work make any representation or warranty, express or implied, * // * regarding this software system or assume any liability for its * // * use. Please see the license in the file LICENSE and URL above * // * for the full disclaimer and the limitation of liability. * // * * // * This code implementation is the result of the scientific and * // * technical work of the GEANT4 collaboration. * // * By using, copying, modifying or distributing the software (or * // * any work based on the software) you agree to acknowledge its * // * use in resulting scientific publications, and indicate your * // * acceptance of all terms of the Geant4 Software license. * // ******************************************************************** // // G4BorisScheme // // Class description: // // Implementation of the Boris algorithm for advancing // charged particles in an electromagnetic field. // Author: Divyansh Tiwari (CERN, Google Summer of Code 2022), 05.11.2022 // Supervision: John Apostolakis (CERN), Renee Fatemi, Soon Yung Jun (FNAL) // -------------------------------------------------------------------- #ifndef G4BORIS_SCHEME_HH #define G4BORIS_SCHEME_HH #include "G4Types.hh" #include class G4EquationOfMotion; /** * @brief The G4BorisScheme class implements of the Boris algorithm for * advancing charged particles in an electromagnetic field. */ class G4BorisScheme { public: /** * Default Constructor. */ G4BorisScheme() = default; /** * Constructor for the equation of motion. * @param[in] equation Pointer to the equation of motion algorithm. * @param[in] nvar The number of integration variables. */ G4BorisScheme( G4EquationOfMotion* equation, G4int nvar = 6 ); /** * Default Destructor. */ ~G4BorisScheme() = default; /** * Does one step, updating velocity and position. * @param[in] restMass Particle mass. * @param[in] charge Particle charge. * @param[in] yIn Initial position. * @param[out] yOut Updated position. * @param[in] hstep Proposed step. */ void DoStep(G4double restMass, G4double charge, const G4double yIn[], G4double yOut[], G4double hstep) const; /** * Adopts the Boris Scheme Stepping to estimate the integration error. * Uses two half-steps (comparing to a full step) to obtain output and * error estimate. * @param[in] yIn Initial position. * @param[in] restMass Particle mass. * @param[in] charge Particle charge. * @param[in] hstep Proposed step. * @param[out] yOut Updated position. * @param[out] yErr The estimated error. */ void StepWithErrorEstimate(const G4double yIn[], G4double restMass, G4double charge, G4double hstep, G4double yOut[], G4double yErr[]) const; /** * Adopts the Boris Scheme Stepping to estimate the integration error. * Uses two half-steps (comparing to a full step) to obtain output and * error estimate. Same as above, but also returns the mid-point evaluation. * @param[in] yIn Initial position. * @param[in] restMass Particle mass. * @param[in] charge Particle charge. * @param[in] hstep Proposed step. * @param[out] yMid tThe mid-point evaluation. * @param[out] yOut Updated position. * @param[out] yErr The estimated error. */ void StepWithMidAndErrorEstimate(const G4double yIn[], G4double restMass, G4double charge, G4double hstep, G4double yMid[], G4double yOut[], G4double yErr[]) const; /** * Auxiliary methods returning a pointer to the equation of motion * and the number of integration variables. */ inline G4EquationOfMotion* GetEquationOfMotion() const; inline G4int GetNumberOfVariables() const; private: /** * Internal methods for updating position and velocity, used in DoStep(). */ void UpdatePosition(const G4double restMass, const G4double charge, const G4double yIn[], G4double yOut[], G4double hstep) const; void UpdateVelocity(const G4double restMass, const G4double charge, const G4double yIn[], G4double yOut[], G4double hstep) const; /** * Utility to mem-copy 'src' array data to 'dst'. */ void copy(G4double dst[], const G4double src[]) const; private: G4EquationOfMotion* fEquation = nullptr; G4int fnvar = 8; static constexpr G4double c_l = CLHEP::c_light/CLHEP::m*CLHEP::second; }; #include "G4BorisScheme.icc" #endif