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// 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 <CLHEP/Units/PhysicalConstants.h>
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