G4CachedMagneticField.hh

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// G4CachedMagneticField
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// Class description:
//
// Caches Magnetic Field value, for field whose evaluation is expensive.
 
// Author: John Apostolakis (CERN), 20.07.2009.
// --------------------------------------------------------------------
#ifndef G4CACHED_MAGNETIC_FIELD_HH
#define G4CACHED_MAGNETIC_FIELD_HH
 
#include "G4Types.hh"
#include "G4ThreeVector.hh"
#include "G4MagneticField.hh"
 
/**
 * @brief G4CachedMagneticField is a specialisation of G4MagneticField and
 * is used to cache the Magnetic Field value, for fields whose evaluation is
 * expensive.
 */
 
class G4CachedMagneticField : public G4MagneticField
{
  public:
 
    /**
     * Constructor for G4CachedMagneticField.
     *  @param[in] pMagField Pointer to the original magnetic field.
     *  @param[in] distance Distance for field evaluation, within
     *             which the field does not change.
     */
    G4CachedMagneticField(G4MagneticField* pMagField, G4double distance);
 
    /**
     * Default Destructor.
     */
    ~G4CachedMagneticField() override = default;
 
    /**
     * Copy constructor and assignment operator.
     */
    G4CachedMagneticField(const G4CachedMagneticField& r);
    G4CachedMagneticField& operator = (const G4CachedMagneticField& p);
 
    /**
     * Returns the value of the field at the give 'Point'.
     *  @param[in] Point The given position time vector (x,y,z,t).
     *  @param[out] Bfield The returned field array.
     */
    void GetFieldValue( const G4double Point[4],
                              G4double* Bfield ) const override;
     
    /**
     * Getter and setter for the distance within which field is constant.
     */
    inline G4double GetConstDistance() const { return fDistanceConst; } 
    inline void SetConstDistance( G4double dist ) { fDistanceConst = dist;}
 
    /**
     * Accessors.
     */
    inline G4int GetCountCalls() const { return fCountCalls; }
    inline G4int GetCountEvaluations() const { return fCountEvaluations; } 
 
    /**
     * Resets counters.
     */
    inline void ClearCounts() { fCountCalls = 0; fCountEvaluations=0; }
 
    /**
     * Streams on standard output the values of counters.
     */
    void ReportStatistics();
    
    /**
     * Returns a pointer of an allocated clone of the field.
     */
    G4Field* Clone() const override;
 
  protected:
 
    mutable G4int fCountCalls = 0, fCountEvaluations = 0;  
 
  private:
 
    G4MagneticField* fpMagneticField = nullptr;
 
    /** When the field is evaluated within this distance it will not change. */
    G4double fDistanceConst;
 
    /** Caching state. */
    mutable G4ThreeVector fLastLocation;
    mutable G4ThreeVector fLastValue;
};
 
#endif