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E(A+M)PEC traces the ionization structure, cooling and emission spectra of plasmas. It is written in OpenCL, runs in NVIDIA Graphics Processor Units and can be coupled to any HD or MHD code to follow the dynamical and thermal evolution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-19 Miguel A. de Avillez , Emanuele Spitoni , Dieter Breitschwerdt

Elegant is an accelerator physics and particle-beam dynamics code widely used for modeling and design of a variety of high-energy particle accelerators and accelerator-based systems. In this paper we discuss a recently developed version of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-22 J. R. King , I. V. Pogorelov , K. M. Amyx , M. Borland , R. Soliday

Numerical heating in particle-in-cell (PIC) codes currently precludes the accurate simulation of cold, relativistic plasma over long periods, severely limiting their applications in astrophysical environments. We present a spatially…

Particle tracking simulations with space charge effects are very important for high-intensity proton rings. Since they include not only Hamilton mechanics of a single particle but constructing charge densities and solving Poisson equations…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Yoshinori Kurimoto

Benchmarking is generally accepted as an important element in demonstrating the correctness of computer simulations. In the modern sense, a benchmark is a computer simulation result that has evidence of correctness, is accompanied by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 M. M. Turner , A. Derzsi , Z. Donko , D. Eremin , S. J. Kelly , T. Lafleur , T. Mussenbrock

This paper presents the benchmarking and scaling studies of a GPU accelerated three dimensional compressible magnetohydrodynamic code. The code is developed keeping an eye to explain the large and intermediate scale magnetic field…

Emerging new technologies in plasma simulations allow tracking billions of particles while computing their radiative spectra. We present a visualization of the relativistic Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability from a simulation performed with the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-07-01 Axel Huebl , David Pugmire , Felix Schmitt , Richard Pausch , Michael Bussmann

We present a GPU-accelerated cosmological simulation code, PhotoNs-GPU, based on algorithm of Particle Mesh Fast Multipole Method (PM-FMM), and focus on the GPU utilization and optimization. A proper interpolated method for truncated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-28 Qiao Wang , Chen Meng

One of the current challenges in physically-based simulations, and, more specifically, fluid simulations, is to produce visually appealing results at interactive rates, capable of being used in multiple forms of media. In recent times, a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Pedro Centeno , João Madeiras Pereira

Graphics processing units have been extensively used to accelerate classical molecular dynamics simulations. However, there is much less progress on the acceleration of force evaluations for many-body potentials compared to pairwise ones.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-06-27 Zheyong Fan , Wei Chen , Ville Vierimaa , Ari Harju

Computer simulations of plasmas are relevant nowadays, because it helps us understand physical processes taking place in the sun and other stellar objects. We developed a program called PCell which is intended for displaying the evolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-06 Rodrigo Carboni , Francisco Frutos-Alfaro

Phenomena taking place in capacitively coupled plasmas with large electrodes and driven at very high frequencies are studied numerically utilizing a novel energy- and charge-conserving implicit fully electromagnetic particle-in-cell / Monte…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 D. Eremin , E. Kemaneci , M. Matsukuma , T. Mussenbrock , R. P. Brinkmann

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

Hybrid-VPIC is an extension of the open-source high-performance particle-in-cell (PIC) code VPIC incorporating hybrid kinetic ion/fluid electron solvers. This paper describes the models that are available in the code and gives an overview…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Ari Le , Adam Stanier , Lin Yin , Blake Wetherton , Brett Keenan , Brian Albright

The Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulation has been a widely used method for studying plasma physics. However, fully three-dimensional PIC simulations always require huge computational resources. For problems with near azimuthal symmetry, recent…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-09 Jianzhao Wang , Weiming An , Rong Tang , Weiyu Meng , Jiayong Zhong

Modern particle-in-cell (PIC) codes have become an integral tool in plasma astrophysics. As most plasma phenomena grow from initially small instabilities, it is important to ensure PIC codes can suppress noise and ensure that any growing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-18 Ludwig M. Böss , Arno Vanthieghem , Hayk Hakobyan , Evgeny A. Gorbunov , Damiano Caprioli

Recently proposed modifications of the standard particle-in-cell (PIC) method resolve long-standing limitations such as exact preservation of physically conserved quantities and unbiased ensemble down-sampling. Such advances pave the way…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Frida Brogren , Christoffer Olofsson , Joel Magnusson , Arkady Gonoskov

A second-order accurate divergence-conserving hybrid particle-in-cell code Maximus has been developed for microscopic modeling of collisionless plasmas. The main specifics of the code include a constrained transport algorithm for exact…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-11 J. A. Kropotina , A. M. Bykov , A. M. Krassilchtchikov , K. P. Levenfish

Global particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of pulsar magnetospheres are performed with a volume, surface and pair production-based plasma injection schemes to systematically investigate the transition between electrosphere and force-free…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-16 Fábio Cruz , Thomas Grismayer , Alexander Y. Chen , Anatoly Spitkovsky , Ricardo A. Fonseca , Luis O. Silva

Kinetic plasma simulations solve the Vlasov-Poisson or Vlasov-Maxwell equations to evolve scalar-variable distribution functions in position-velocity phase space and vector-variable electromagnetic fields in physical space. The…

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