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The standard particle-in-cell algorithm suffers from grid heating. There exists a gridless alternative which bypasses the deposition step and calculates each Fourier mode of the charge density directly from the particle positions. We show…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Matthew S. Mitchell , Matthew T. Miecnikowski , Gregory Beylkin , Scott E. Parker

Particle-based dynamic occupancy maps were proposed in recent years to model the obstacles in dynamic environments. Current particle-based maps describe the occupancy status in discrete grid form and suffer from the grid size problem,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Gang Chen , Wei Dong , Peng Peng , Javier Alonso-Mora , Xiangyang Zhu

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…

We present a geometric Particle-in-Cell (PIC) algorithm on two-dimensional (2D) unstructured meshes for studying electrostatic perturbations in magnetized plasmas. In this method, ions are treated as fully kinetic particles, and electrons…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Zhenyu Wang , Hong Qin , Benjamin Sturdevant , C. S. Chang

An electrostatic, implicit particle-in-cell (PIC) model for collisionless, fully magnetized, paraxial plasma expansions in a magnetic nozzle is introduced with exact charge, energy, and magnetic moment conservation properties. The approach…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Pedro Jimenez , Luis Chacon , Mario Merino

Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) solve physical systems by incorporating governing partial differential equations directly into neural network training. In electromagnetism, where well-established methodologies such as FDTD and FEM…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Nilufer K. Bulut

In particle simulations, the weights of particles determine how many physical particles they represent. Adaptively adjusting these weights can greatly improve the efficiency of the simulation, without creating severe nonphysical artifacts.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-11-05 Jannis Teunissen , Ute Ebert

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

Particle-wall interactions play a crucially important role in various applications such as microfluidic devices for cell sorting, particle separation, entire class of hydrodynamic filtration and its derivatives, etc. Yet, accurate…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-18 Aryan Mehboudi , Shrawan Singhal , S. V. Sreenivasan

We propose a method for linear-time diversity maintenance in particle filtering. It clusters particles based on ancestry tree topology: closely related particles in sufficiently large subtrees are grouped together. The main idea is that the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Ilari Vallivaara , Bingnan Duan , Yinhuan Dong , Tughrul Arslan

Particle-in-Cell (PIC) methods employ particle representations of unknown fields, but also employ continuum fields for other parts of the problem. Thus projection between particle and continuum bases is required. Moreover, we often need to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-22 Joseph V. Pusztay , Matthew G. Knepley , Mark F. Adams

Particle methods are a ubiquitous tool for solving the Vlasov-Poisson equation in comoving coordinates, which is used to model the gravitational evolution of dark matter in an expanding universe. However, these methods are known to produce…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-12 Andrew Myers , Phillip Colella , Brian Van Straalen

An efficient and momentum conserving algorithm for enforcing contact between solid bodies is proposed. Previous advances in the material point method (MPM) led to a fast and simple, but potentially momentum violating, strategy for enforcing…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Michael Tupek , Jacob Koester , Matthew Mosby

In this letter we describe the pseudoparticle multipole method (P2M2), a new method to express multipole expansion by a distribution of pseudoparticles. We can use this distribution of particles to calculate high order terms in both the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Atsushi Kawai , Junichiro Makino

A recent paper by Huang et al. [Computer Physics Communications 207, 123 (2016)] thoroughly analyzed the Finite Grid Instability(FGI) and spectral fidelity of standard Particle-In-Cell (PIC) methods. Numerical experiments were carried out…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-04-02 Jianyuan Xiao , Hong Qin

Although poor for small dynamic scales, the Particle-Mesh (PM) model allows in astrophysics good insight for large dynamic scales at low computational cost. Furthermore, it is possible to employ a very high number of particles to get high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Carretti , A. Messina

The quasi-neutral hybrid model with kinetic ions and fluid electrons is a promising approach for bridging the inherent multi-scale nature of many problems in space and laboratory plasmas. Here, a novel, implicit, particle-in-cell based…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 A. Stanier , L. Chacón , G. Chen

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

Smart distribution grids should efficiently integrate stochastic renewable resources while effecting voltage regulation. The design of energy management schemes is challenging, one of the reasons being that energy management is a multistage…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-19 Luis M. Lopez-Ramos , Vassilis Kekatos , Antonio G. Marques , Georgios B. Giannakis

We introduce a new spatial data structure for high dimensional data called the \emph{approximate principal direction tree} (APD tree) that adapts to the intrinsic dimension of the data. Our algorithm ensures vector-quantization accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Mark McCartin-Lim , Andrew McGregor , Rui Wang