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We formulate and test a hybrid fluid-Monte Carlo scheme for the treatment of elastic collisions in gases and plasmas. While our primary focus and demonstrations of applicability are for moderately collisional plasmas, as described by the…

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In this paper we present a new three dimensional (3D) full electromagnetic relativistic hybrid plasma code H-VLPL (hybrid virtual laser plasma laboratory). The full kinetic particle-in-cell (PIC) method is used to simulate low density hot…

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This paper proposes an adaptive hyper-reduction method to reduce the computational cost associated with the simulation of parametric particle-based kinetic plasma models, specifically focusing on the Vlasov-Poisson equation. Conventional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Cecilia Pagliantini , Federico Vismara

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

Non-neutral plasmas can excite many nonlinear plasma phenomena, e.g., collisionless shocks, sheath layers, solitons, and plasma plumes. It is a fundamental issue in fields such as astrophysics, space physics, nuclear fusion, and plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 Jin-Long Jiao

When supersonic plasma flows collide, many physical processes contribute to the morphology of the resulting shock. One of these processes is the acceleration of non-thermal ions, which will, eventually, reach relativistic speeds and become…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-16 Allard Jan van Marle

A previously-developed hybrid particle-continuum method [J. B. Bell, A. Garcia and S. A. Williams, SIAM Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, 6:1256-1280, 2008] is generalized to dense fluids and two and three dimensional flows. The scheme…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 A. Donev , J. B. Bell , A. L. Garcia , B. J. Alder

We introduce an extension of the particle-in-cell (PIC) method that captures the Landau collisional effects in the Vlasov-Maxwell-Landau equations. The method arises from a regularisation of the variational formulation of the Landau…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 Rafael Bailo , José A. Carrillo , Jingwei Hu

We propose a hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) technique applicable to high-dimensional multivariate normal distributions that effectively samples along chaotic trajectories. The method is predicated on the freedom of choice of the HMC momentum…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-04-26 Nirag Kadakia

Heliospheric plasmas require multi-scale and multi-physics considerations. On one hand, MHD codes are widely used for global simulations of the solar-terrestrial environments, but do not provide the most elaborate physical description of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-09 S. P. Moschou , I. V. Sokolov , O. Cohen , G. Toth , J. J. Drake , Z. Huang , C. Garraffo , J. D. Alvarado-Gómez , T. Gombosi

Validity of fluid models breaks down for non-thermal or weakly collisional plasmas which often occur e.g. in the solar wind. In these regimes one has to resort to modelling through the first-principle Vlasov-Maxwell system, but its…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Rostislav-Paul Wilhelm , Fabio Bacchini

We study numerical methods for dissipative particle dynamics (DPD), which is a system of stochastic differential equations and a popular stochastic momentum-conserving thermostat for simulating complex hydrodynamic behavior at mesoscales.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Xiaocheng Shang

We develop a new Lagrangian material particle -- dynamical domain decomposition method (MPD^3) for large scale parallel molecular dynamics (MD) simulation of nonstationary heterogeneous systems on a heterogeneous computing net. MPD^3 is…

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In the paper, gridless particle techniques are presented in order to solve problems involving electrostatic, collisionless plasmas. The method makes use of computational particles having the shape of spherical shells or of rings, and can be…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-01-24 E. Boella , G. Coppa , A. D Angola , B. Peiretti Paradisi

In this paper, we present a splitting algorithm to solve multicomponent transport models. These models are related to plasma simulations, in which we consider the local thermodynamic equilibrium and weakly ionised plasma-mixture models that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-09 Juergen Geiser

We develop a multiscale hybrid scheme for simulations of soft condensed matter systems, which allows one to treat the system at the particle level in selected regions of space, and at the continuum level elsewhere. It is derived…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-17 Shuanhu Qi , Hans Behringer , Friederike Schmid

The semi-Lagrangian methods with the improved number of one-dimensional advections are proposed for a plasma hybrid model with kinetic ions and mass-less electrons. Two subsystems with mass, momentum, and energy conservation are obtained by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Yingzhe Li , Philip J. Morrison , Eric Sonnendrücker

A geometric numerical method for simulating suspensions of spherical and non-spherical particles with Stokes drag is proposed. The method combines divergence-free matrix-valued radial basis function interpolation of the fluid velocity field…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-26 Benjamin K. Tapley , Helge I. Andersson , Elena Celledoni , Brynjulf Owren

This work describes a new 1D hybrid approach for modeling atmospheric pressure discharges featuring complex chemistry. In this approach electrons are described fully kinetically using Particle-In-Cell/Monte-Carlo (PIC/MCC) scheme, whereas…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Denis Eremin , Torben Hemke , Thomas Mussenbrock

We present a promising coarse-graining strategy for linking micro- and mesoscales of soft matter systems. The approach is based on effective pairwise interaction potentials obtained from detailed atomistic molecular dynamics (MD)…

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