Semi-Lagrangian implementation method using GPU

Nowadays plasma has become of great importance in both scientific and industrial areas since nanostructures, used for creating small computational processing devices, are produced by pulse lasers. The Simulation of phenomena such as plasma consumes a big amount of CPUs execution time. This paper intends to suggest a parallel solution of the Semi-Lagrangian using GPUs to solve the Vlasov-Poisson equations in 1D, as a different simulation alternative to PIC (Particle in Cell). To make this process a CUDA was used as a programing framework and an nVidia GTX 580 graphic card as a parallel processing element. The result of the parallelization process allowed accelerating the execution time of 3.7 times faster in comparison to the sequential algorithm.