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We study parallel particle-in-cell (PIC) methods for low-temperature plasmas (LTPs), which discretize kinetic formulations that capture the time evolution of the probability density function of particles as a function of position and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-08-12 James Almgren-Bell , Nader Al Awar , Dilip S Geethakrishnan , Milos Gligoric , George Biros

The Particle-In-Cell (PIC) method for plasma simulation tracks particle phase space information using particle and grid data structures. High computational costs in 2D and 3D device-scale PIC simulations necessitate parallelization, with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Libn Varghese , Bhaskar Chaudhury , Miral Shah , Mainak Bandyopadhyay

We extend the simplex-in-cell (SIC) technique recently introduced in the context of collisionless dark matter fluids (Abel et al. 2012; Hahn et al. 2012) to the case of collisionless plasmas. The six-dimensional phase space distribution…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Julian Kates-Harbeck , Samuel Totorica , Jonathan Zrake , Tom Abel

Many methods solve Poisson equations by using grid techniques which discretize the problem in each dimension. Most of these algorithms are subject to the curse of dimensionality, so that they need exponential runtime. In the paper "Quantum…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Michael Holzmann , Harald Koestler

A highly accurate self-consistent particle code to simulate the beam-beam collision in $e^+e^-$ storage rings has been developed. It adopts a method of solving the Poisson equation with an open boundary. The method consists of two steps:…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Yunhai Cai , Alex W. Chao , Stephan I. Tzenov , Toshi Tajima

We present a new multi-fluid, multi-temperature plasma solver with adaptive Cartesian mesh (ACM) based on a full-Newton (non-linear, implicit) scheme for collisional low-temperature plasma. The particle transport is described using the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Robert Arslanbekov , Vladimir Kolobov

Resolving numerically Vlasov-Poisson equations for initially cold systems can be reduced to following the evolution of a three-dimensional sheet evolving in six-dimensional phase-space. We describe a public parallel numerical algorithm…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Thierry Sousbie , Stéphane Colombi

The Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) model governs the electrostatics of solvated biomolecules, i.e., potential, field, energy, and force. These quantities can provide useful information about protein properties, functions, and dynamics. By…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-29 Xin Yang , Elyssa Sliheet , Reece Iriye , Daniel Reynolds , Weihua Geng

We present the development and benchmarking of Poisson solvers for graphics processing units (GPUs). Implemented in the Astaroth platform, the solvers feature high computational efficiency. We present novel combinations of discretizations…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 Ruben Krasnopolsky , Touko Puro , Wei-Wen Li , Hsien Shang , Miikka S. Väisälä , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Matthias Rheinhardt , Maarit Korpi-Lagg

We present a new multigrid scheme for solving the Poisson equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions on a Cartesian grid with irregular domain boundaries. This scheme was developed in the context of the Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-05-16 Thomas Guillet , Romain Teyssier

We develop a numerical strategy to solve multi-dimensional Poisson equations on dynamically adapted grids for evolutionary problems disclosing propagating fronts. The method is an extension of the multiresolution finite volume scheme used…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-12 Max Duarte , Zdenek Bonaventura , Marc Massot , Anne Bourdon

An efficient solver for the three dimensional free-space Poisson equation is presented. The underlying numerical method is based on finite Fourier series approximation. While the error of all involved approximations can be fully controlled,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-10-18 Lukas Exl

Context. Simulating solar flares, which involve large-scale dynamics and small-scale magnetic reconnection, poses significant computational challenges. Aims. This study aims to develop an explicit Particle-In-Cell (PIC) solver within the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-30 Michael Haahr , Boris V. Gudiksen , Åke Nordlund

This paper presents an optimized and scalable semi-Lagrangian solver for the Vlasov-Poisson system in six-dimensional phase space. Grid-based solvers of the Vlasov equation are known to give accurate results. At the same time, these solvers…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-29 Katharina Kormann , Klaus Reuter , Markus Rampp

The solution of linear systems of equations is a central task in a number of scientific and engineering applications. In many cases the solution of linear systems may take most of the simulation time thus representing a major bottleneck in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Giovanni Isotton , Carlo Janna , Massimo Bernaschi

Poisson's equation is the canonical elliptic partial differential equation. While there exist fast Poisson solvers for finite difference and finite element methods, fast Poisson solvers for spectral methods have remained elusive. Here, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-01 Daniel Fortunato , Alex Townsend

We design a variational quantum algorithm to solve multi-dimensional Poisson equations with mixed boundary conditions that are typically required in various fields of computational science. Employing an objective function that is formulated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-26 Minjin Choi , Hoon Ryu

A parallel implementation of an eigensolver designed for electronic structure calculations is presented. The method is applicable to computational tasks that solve a sequence of eigenvalue problems where the solution for a particular…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-03-02 E. L. Briggs , C. T. Kelley , J. Bernholc

The problem of Bayesian filtering and smoothing in nonlinear models with additive noise is an active area of research. Classical Taylor series as well as more recent sigma-point based methods are two well-known strategies to deal with these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Fatemeh Yaghoobi , Adrien Corenflos , Sakira Hassan , Simo Särkkä

The conductor-like polarization model (C-PCM) with switching/Gaussian smooth discretization is a widely used implicit solvation model in chemical simulations. However, its application in quantum mechanical calculations of large-scale…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-07-03 Fang Liu , Nathan Luehr , Heather J. Kulik , Todd J. Martínez