Simulations from 3rd year research project

• These are the series of simulations I wrote in python using the MEEP module

• They are FDTD simulations of light transmission through a bacteria (Synechochystis)

• The majority of the simulations are 2D simulations that I used to build my model before committing it to 3D

• The novelty of these simulations are that:

  • First time anyone had looked at a 3D bacterial model
  • First time a thylakoid and cytoplasm had been modelled independently (using refractive indicies)
  • A very primitive model of absorption had been implemented however this needed more work that my time allowed