This repository contains educational Jupyter notebooks for plasma physics. The notebooks use particle-in-cell simulations with the 1D PIC code OSIRIS to illustrate:
- Dispersion relation for electron plasma waves
- Dispersion relation for light waves
- Light waves traveling from vacuum into plasma (with either gradual or sharp gradient)
- X- and O-mode dispersion
- Propagating X-waves
- R- and L-waves
- Faraday rotation
- Velocities: introduction to phase and group velocity (no simulations)
We welcome contributions and ideas: please email us at picksc.org@gmail.com
- Docker must be installed (Docker site)
- Clone this repository
- Navigate into the JupyterPIC directory
- Execute
docker build -t osiris-class -f Dockerfile-local .- ...including the final period
- Execute
./runosdocker - This will output several lines of text to your terminal, including a web URL
- Paste the web URL into a web browser to start the Jupyter environment
- Within Jupyter, open the *.ipynb files inside any of the "notebooks" directories
- To quit, "Logout" of the Jupyter notebook, close your browser windows, and type Ctrl-C twice in your terminal window.
The above commands will write simulation output into the project directories. If you would like to keep a fresh copy of this original GitHub repository, it is important that you copy this JupyterPIC directory into a separate location on your computer for simulation purposes and personal file modifications.