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We present a new implicit asymptotic preserving time integration scheme for charged-particle orbit computation in arbitrary electromagnetic fields. The scheme is built on the Crank-Nicolson integrator and continues to recover full-orbit…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Lee F. Ricketson , Luis Chacón

Electromagnetic particle simulation model has been formulated and verified for nonlinear processes of lower hybrid (LH) waves in fusion plasmas. Electron dynamics is described by the drift kinetic equation using either kinetic momentum or…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-10-06 J. Bao , Z. Lin , A. Kuley , Z. X. Wang

Electromagnetic particle-in-cell (PIC) codes are widely used to perform computer simulations of a variety of physical systems, including fusion plasmas, astrophysical plasmas, plasma wakefield particle accelerators, and secondary photon…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Edoardo Zoni , Remi Lehe , Olga Shapoval , Daniel Belkin , Neil Zaïm , Luca Fedeli , Henri Vincenti , Jean-Luc Vay

A new approach to the kinetic simulation of plasmas in complex geometries, based on the Particle-in- Cell (PIC) simulation method, is explored. In the two dimensional (2d) electrostatic version of our method, called the Arbitrary…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 C. A. Fichtl , J. M. Finn , K. L. Cartwright

The $\delta f$ particle-in-cell algorithm has been a useful tool in studying the physics of plasmas, particularly turbulent magnetized plasmas in the context of gyrokinetics. The reduction in noise due to not having to resolve the full…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 George J. Wilkie , William Dorland

Important nonlinear dynamics, such as those found in plasma and fluid systems, are typically hard to simulate on classical computers. Thus, if fault-tolerant quantum computers could efficiently solve such nonlinear problems, it would be a…

Particle-in-cell (PIC) plasma simulations are a productive and valued tool for the study of nonlinear plasma phenomena, yet there are basic questions about the simulation methods themselves that remain unanswered. Here we study one such…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 J. U. Brackbill

This paper introduces a novel formulation of the Particle-In-Cell (PIC) method for the modeling of relativistic plasmas, which leverages the ability of the Pseudo-Spectral Analytical Time-Domain solver (PSATD) to handle arbitrary time…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-12-29 Olga Shapoval , Edoardo Zoni , Remi Lehe , Maxence Thevenet , Jean-Luc Vay

We present a study of the standard plasma physics test, Landau damping, using the Particle-In-Cell (PIC) algorithm. The Landau damping phenomenon consists of the damping of small oscillations in plasmas without collisions. In the PIC…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-03-23 Daniel S. Finn , Matthew G. Knepley , Joseph V. Pusztay , Mark F. Adams

We propose a spectral Particle-In-Cell (PIC) algorithm that is based on the combination of a Hankel transform and a Fourier transform. For physical problems that have close-to-cylindrical symmetry, this algorithm can be much faster than…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Remi Lehe , Manuel Kirchen , Igor A. Andriyash , Brendan B. Godfrey , Jean-Luc Vay

Discontinuous Galerkin methods are developed for solving the Vlasov-Maxwell system, methods that are designed to be systematically as accurate as one wants with provable conservation of mass and possibly total energy. Such properties in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-24 Yingda Cheng , Irene M. Gamba , Fengyan Li , Philip J. Morrison

We propose a method for inference on moderately high-dimensional, nonlinear, non-Gaussian, partially observed Markov process models for which the transition density is not analytically tractable. Markov processes with intractable transition…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-04-02 Joonha Park , Edward L. Ionides

We describe a spectral method for the numerical solution of the Vlasov-Poisson system where the velocity space is decomposed by means of an Hermite basis, and the configuration space is discretized via a Fourier decomposition. The novelty…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-12-19 E. Camporeale , G. L. Delzanno , B. K. Bergen , J. D. Moulton

The numerical solution of high dimensional Vlasov equation is usually performed by particle-in-cell (PIC) methods. However, due to the well-known numerical noise, it is challenging to use PIC methods to get a precise description of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-20 Bei Wang , Greg Miller , Phil Colella

We present results from a fully kinetic particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation of direct current magnetron sputtering (dcMS) in a 2D cylindrically symmetric geometry. The particle-in-cell model assumes an electrostatic approximation and includes…

Numerical climate- and weather-prediction requires the fast solution of the equations of fluid dynamics. Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretisations have several advantageous properties. They can be used for arbitrary domains and support a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-13 Jack D. Betteridge , Thomas H. Gibson , Ivan G. Graham , Eike H. Müller

Our fully kinetic, implicit Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations of global magnetospheres on up to 32,768 of El Capitan's AMD Instinct MI300A Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) represent an unprecedented computational capability that…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Stefano Markidis , Andong Hu , Ivy Peng , Luca Pennati , Ian Lumsden , Dewi Yokelson , Stephanie Brink , Olga Pearce , Thomas R. W. Scogland , Bronis R. de Supinski , Gian Luca Delzanno , Michela Taufer

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

We take issue with the conclusions in the recent publication by Savard et al. In the study, the authors implement a fully nonlinear charge- and energy-conserving implicit particle-in-cell method (ECC-IPIC), and use it to study the impact of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Luis Chacon , Guangye Chen , Lee Ricketson

Particle-in-cell codes are the most widely used simulation tools for kinetic studies of ultra-intense laser-plasma interactions. Using the motion of a single electron in a plane electromagnetic wave as a benchmark problem, we show…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Kavin Tangtartharakul , Guangye Chen , Alexey Arefiev