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There are many interesting physical processes which involve the generation of high density plasmas in large volumes. However, when modeling these systems numerically, the large densities and volumes present a significant computational…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. E. Schulz , A. D. Greenwood , K. L. Cartwright , P. J. Mardahl

We report on the development of a computational framework for the parallel, mesh-adaptive solution of systems of hyperbolic conservation laws like the time-dependent Euler equations in compressible gas dynamics or Magneto-Hydrodynamics…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Dreher , R. Grauer

This work presents a case study of a heterogeneous multiphysics solver from the nuclear fusion domain. At the macroscopic scale, an auto-differentiable ODE solver in JAX computes the evolution of the pulsed power circuit and bulk plasma…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Jack B. Coughlin , Archis Joglekar , Jonathan Brodrick , Alexander Lavin

In this article we present a parallel algorithm for simulation of the heat conduction process inside the so-called pulse cryogenic cell. This simulation is important for designing the device for portion injection of working gases into…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-12-10 A. Ayriyan , J. Buša

Experimental results, supported by precise modelling, demonstrate optimisation of a plasma-based injector with intermediate laser pulse energy ($<1$ J), corresponding to a normalised vector potential $a_0 = 2.15$, using ionisation injection…

Furthering our understanding of many of today's interesting problems in plasma physics---including plasma based acceleration and magnetic reconnection with pair production due to quantum electrodynamic effects---requires large-scale kinetic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Kyle G. Miller , Roman P. Lee , Adam Tableman , Anton Helm , Ricardo A. Fonseca , Viktor K. Decyk , Warren B. Mori

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

The purpose of this work is the development of a self-consistent multi-physics modeling framework for ICP discharges. Unlike a monolithic approach, the hydrodynamics and electromagnetic field are handled by separate solvers, all developed…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-04-13 Alessandro Munafo' , Sanjeev Kumar , Marco Panesi

Electromagnetic computations, where the wavelength is small in relation to the geometry of interest, become computationally demanding. In order to manage computations for realistic problems like electromagnetic scattering from aircraft, the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Afshin Zafari , Elisabeth Larsson , Marco Righero , M. Alessandro Francavilla , Giorgio Giordanengo , Francesca Vipiana , Giuseppe Vecchi

Combinatorial decision problems arise in many different domains such as scheduling, routing, packing, bioinformatics, and many more. Despite recent advances in developing scalable solvers, there are still many problems which are often very…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Barry Hurley , Deepak Mehta , Barry O'Sullivan

We present a novel approach to the parallelization of the parabolic fast multipole method for a space-time boundary element method for the heat equation. We exploit the special temporal structure of the involved operators to provide an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Raphael Watschinger , Michal Merta , Günther Of , Jan Zapletal

We propose a new parallel-in-time algorithm for solving optimal control problems constrained by discretized partial differential equations. Our approach, which is based on a deeper understanding of ParaExp, considers an overlapping…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Felix Kwok , Djahou N Tognon

We present a load balancing strategy for hybrid particle-mesh methods that is based on domain decomposition and element-local time measurement. This new strategy is compared to our previous approach, which assumes a constant weighting…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 P. Ortwein , T. Binder , S. Copplestone , A. Mirza , P. Nizenkov , M. Pfeiffer , C. -D. Munz , S. Fasoulas

Modeling and simulation of High Power Microwave (HPM) breakdown, a multiscale phenomenon, is computationally expensive and requires solving Maxwell's equations (EM solver) coupled with a plasma continuity equation (plasma solver). In this…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Kalp Pandya , Pratik Ghosh , Ajeya Mandikal , Shivam Gandha , Bhaskar Chaudhury

This work presents a unified fluid modeling framework for reacting flows coupled with nonthermal plasmas (NTPs). Building upon the gas-plasma kinetics solver, ChemPlasKin, and the CFD library, OpenFOAM, the integrated solver, reactPlasFOAM,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Xiao Shao , Deanna A. Lacoste , Hong G. Im

A dispersion relation for a commonly used hybrid model of plasma physics is developed, which combines fully kinetic ions and a massless-electron fluid description. Although this model and variations of it have been used to describe plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-03-30 Daniel Told , Tessa Cookmeyer , Patrick Astfalk , Frank Jenko

We introduce a hybrid method to couple continuous Galerkin finite element methods and high-order finite difference methods in a nonconforming multiblock fashion. The aim is to optimize computational efficiency when complex geometries are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-24 Tuan Anh Dao , Ken Mattsson , Murtazo Nazarov

Modern particle accelerators and their applications increasingly rely on precisely coordinated interactions of intense charged particle and laser beams. Femtosecond-scale synchronization alongside micrometre-scale spatial precision are…

Since self-gravity is crucial in the structure formation of the universe, many hydrodynamics simulations with the effect of self-gravity have been conducted. The multigrid method is widely used as a solver for the Poisson equation of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-13 Ryunosuke Maeda , Tsuyoshi Inoue , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

This work proposes a methodology to find performance and energy trade-offs for parallel applications running on Heterogeneous Multi-Processing systems with a single instruction-set architecture. These offer flexibility in the form of…