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We present a new magnetohydrodynamic-particle-in-cell (MHD-PIC) code integrated into the Athena++ framework. It treats energetic particles as in conventional PIC codes while the rest of thermal plasmas are treated as background fluid…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-31 Xiaochen Sun , Xue-Ning Bai

High-power magnetically shielded Hall thrusters have recently emerged to meet the needs of the next-generation space missions. Even though a few such thrusters are currently undergoing their late-stage development campaigns, many unanswered…

The present paper is devoted to the convergence analysis of an asymptotic preserving particle scheme designed to serve as a particle pusher in a Particle-In-Cell (PIC) method for the Vlasov equation with a strong inhomogeneous magnetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Francis Filbet , L Miguel Rodrigues , Kim Han Trinh

Laser plasma instabilities (LPIs) have significant influences on the laser energy deposition efficiency, hot electron generation, and uniformity of irradiation in inertial confined fusion (ICF). In contrast to theoretical analysis of linear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Hanghang Ma , Liwei Tan , Suming Weng , Wenjun Ying , Zhengming Sheng , Jie Zhang

This paper formulates a new particle-in-cell method for the Vlasov-Maxwell system. Under the Lorenz gauge condition, Maxwell's equations for the electromagnetic fields can be written as a collection of scalar and vector wave equations. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-18 Andrew J. Christlieb , William A. Sands , Stephen White

The Particle-Particle-Particle-Mesh algorithm elegantly extends the standard Particle-In-Cell scheme by direct summation of interaction that happens over distances below or around mesh size. Generally, this allows for a more accurate…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-04-19 Tim Wyssling , Andreas Adelmann

Cosmic-ray acceleration processes in astrophysical plasmas are often investigated with fully-kinetic or hybrid kinetic numerical simulations, which enable us to describe a detailed microphysics of particle energization mechanisms. Tracing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-12 Gabriel Torralba Paz , Artem Bohdan , Jacek Niemiec

We perform a scaling and performance portability study of the particle-in-cell scheme for plasma physics applications through a set of mini-apps we name "Alpine", which can make use of exascale computing capabilities. The mini-apps are…

Hamiltonian particle-based simulations of plasma dynamics are inherently computationally intensive, primarily due to the large number of particles required to obtain accurate solutions. This challenge becomes even more acute in many-query…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Emmanuel Franck , Laurent Navoret , Vincent Vigon , Raphaël Côte , Guillaume Steimer

Having in mind the modelling of marble degradation under chemical pollutants, e.g.~the sulfation process, we consider governing nonlinear diffusion equations and their numerical approximation.The space domain of a computation is the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-29 Armando Coco , Matteo Semplice , Stefano Serra-Capizzano

We present the parallel particle-in-cell (PIC) code Apar-T and, more importantly, address the fundamental question of the relations between the PIC model, the Vlasov-Maxwell theory, and real plasmas. First, we present four validation tests:…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-11-12 Mickaël Melzani , Christophe Winisdoerffer , Rolf Walder , Doris Folini , Jean M. Favre , Stefan Krastanov , Peter Messmer

Recently, fictitious identical particles have provided a promising way to overcome the fermion sign problem and have been used in path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) to accurately simulate warm dense matter with up to 1000 electrons (T.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-08-14 Yunuo Xiong , Shujuan Liu , Hongwei Xiong

Numerical simulation of the complex plasma dynamics associated with high power, high frequency microwave breakdown at high pressures, leading to the formation of filamentary plasma structures such as self-organized plasma arrays, is a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Pratik Ghosh , Bhaskar Chaudhury

Despite its importance, unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) on LiDAR semantic segmentation is a task that has not received much attention from the research community. Only recently, a completion-based 3D method has been proposed to tackle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Eojindl Yi , Juyoung Yang , Junmo Kim

Many problems in astrophysics involve relativistic outflows. The plasma dynamics in these scenarios is critical to determine the conditions for the self-consistent evolution of the fields and particle acceleration. Advances in computer…

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An efficient computational approach for optimal reconstructing parameters of binary-type physical properties for models in biomedical applications is developed and validated. The methodology includes gradient-based multiscale optimization…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-24 Priscilla M. Koolman , Vladislav Bukshtynov

A recently developed spectral-element adaptive refinement incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code [Rosenberg, Fournier, Fischer, Pouquet, J. Comp. Phys. 215, 59-80 (2006)] is applied to simulate the problem of MHD island coalescence…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-08-31 C. S. Ng , D. Rosenberg , K. Germaschewski , A. Pouquet , A. Bhattacharjee

A field theory and the associated structure-preserving geometric Particle-In-Cell (PIC) algorithm are developed to study low frequency electrostatic perturbations with fully kinetic ions and adiabatic electrons in magnetized plasmas. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Jianyuan Xiao , Hong Qin

We present a method for performing path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) simulations for fermions and address its sign problem. PIMD simulations are widely used for studying many-body quantum systems at thermal equilibrium. However, they…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-05-07 Barak Hirshberg , Michele Invernizzi , Michele Parrinello

Ferroelectric materials with switchable spontaneous polarization underpin non-volatile memories, transistors, sensors, and emerging neuromorphic chips. Their performance and stability are governed by polarization dynamics and domain…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-20 Dongyu Bai , Ri He , Junxian Liu , Liangzhi Kou