Bizzozero, D. A. De Gersem, H. Gjonaj, E. JACoW Geneva, Switzerland 978-3-95450-179-3 10.18429/JACoW-FEL2017-TUP035 English 317-319 TUP035 ion wakefield vacuum radiation synchrotron Contribution to a conference proceedings 2018 2018-02 https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-FEL2017-TUP035 http://jacow.org/fel2017/papers/tup035.pdf Coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR) is an essential consideration in modern accelerators and related electromagnetic structures. We present our current method to examine CSR in the time domain. The method uses a 2D Discontinous Galerkin (DG) discretization in the longitudinal and transverse coordinates (z,x) with a Fourier decomposition in the transverse coordinate y. After summation over modes, this treatment describes all electromagnetic field components at each space-time coordinate (z,x,y,t). Additionally, by alignment of mesh element interfaces along a source reference orbit, DG methods can handle discontinuous or thin sources in the transverse x direction. We present an overview of our method, illustrate it by calculating wake functions for a bunch compressor, and discuss a method for estimating emittance growth from the wake fields in future work.