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With the great development of parallel computing techniques, the particle-particle (PP) model has been successfully applied in a number of plasma applications. Comparing to particle-mesh (PM) models, for example the widely used…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Yanan Zhang , Xiaochun Ma , Hui Liu , Yinjian Zhao

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

There are a number of different phenomena in the early universe that have to be studied numerically with lattice simulations. This paper presents a graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerated Python program called PyCOOL that solves the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Jani Sainio

We discuss the fundamentals of the implicit moment method for Particle In Cell (PIC) simulation as presently implemented in the CELESTE3D code. We present the method in its fully electromagnetic and fully kinetic version. The application of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2008-01-29 Giovanni Lapenta

With the approach of exascale computing era, particle-based models are becoming the focus of research due to their excellent scalability. We present a new code, Slurm, which implements the classic particle-in-cell algorithm for modeling…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Vyacheslav Olshevsky , Fabio Bacchini , Stefaan Poedts , Giovanni Lapenta

Probabilistic Circuits (PCs) are a general framework for tractable deep generative models, which support exact and efficient probabilistic inference on their learned distributions. Recent modeling and training advancements have enabled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Anji Liu , Kareem Ahmed , Guy Van den Broeck

We introduce a quasi-static particle-in-cell (PIC) code -- WAND-PIC -- which does not suffer from some of the common limitations of many quasi-static PICs, such as the need for a predictor-corrector method in solving electromagnetic fields.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-04-22 Tianhong Wang , Vladimir Khudik , Jihoon Kim , Gennady Shvets

The rapid development of AI highlights the pressing need for sustainable energy, a critical global challenge for decades. Nuclear fusion, generally seen as an ultimate solution, has been the focus of intensive research for nearly a century,…

Atomic-level simulations are widely used to study biomolecules and their dynamics. A common goal in such studies is to compare simulations of a molecular system under several conditions -- for example, with various mutations or bound…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-07 Martin Vögele , Neil J. Thomson , Sang T. Truong , Jasper McAvity , Ulrich Zachariae , Ron O. Dror

We present recent developments in the parallelization scheme of ECHO-3DHPC, an efficient astrophysical code used in the modelling of relativistic plasmas. With the help of the Intel Software Development Tools, like Fortran compiler and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Matteo Bugli , Luigi Iapichino , Fabio Baruffa

We have newly developed a Parallelized Particle-Particle Particle-tree code for Planet formation, PENTACLE, which is a parallelized hybrid $N$-body integrator executed on a CPU-based (super)computer. PENTACLE uses a 4th-order Hermite…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-30 Masaki Iwasawa , Shoichi Oshino , Michiko S. Fujii , Yasunori Hori

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

Particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations are essential for studying kinetic plasma processes, but they often suffer from statistical noise, especially in plasmas with fast flows. We have also found that the typical central difference scheme used…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Yuxi Chen , Hongyang Zhou , Gabor Toth

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

We devise and explore an iterative optimization procedure for controlling particle populations in particle-in-cell (PIC) codes via merging and splitting of computational macro-particles. Our approach, is to compute an optimal representation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-01 J. Trier Frederiksen , G. Lapenta , M. E. Pessah

The simulation of problems in kinetic plasma physics are often challenging due to strongly coupled phenomena across multiple scales. In this work, we propose a wavelet-based coarse-grained numerical scheme, based on the framework of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 Paul Cazeaux , Jan S. Hesthaven

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

Most particle induced X-ray emission (PIXE) data analysis codes are not focused on handling multilayered samples. We have developed an open-source library called "LibCPIXE", for PIXE data analysis. It is written in standard C and implements…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-07-18 C. Pascual-Izarra , N. P. Barradas , M. A. Reis

This paper reports on an in-depth evaluation of the performance portability frameworks Kokkos and RAJA with respect to their suitability for the implementation of complex particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation codes, extending previous studies…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Victor Artigues , Katharina Kormann , Markus Rampp , Klaus Reuter

Next-generation high-power lasers that can be focused to intensities exceeding 10^23 W/cm^2 are enabling new physics and applications. The physics of how these lasers interact with matter is highly nonlinear, relativistic, and can involve…

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