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The present paper is devoted to the convergence analysis of a class of asymptotic preserving particle schemes [Filbet \& Rodrigues, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 54 (2) (2016)] for the Vlasov equation with a strong external magnetic field. In this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-23 Francis Filbet , Luis Miguel Rodrigues , Hamed Zakerzadeh

In particle-in-cell simulations, excessive or even unfeasible computational demands can be caused by the growth of the number of particles in the course of prolific ionization or cascaded pair production due to the effects of quantum…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-25 A. Muraviev , A. Bashinov , E. Efimenko , V. Volokitin , I. Meyerov , A. Gonoskov

Particle-in-Cell (PIC) codes are a popular tool to model laser-plasma interactions. Many different PIC codes already exist, and many new PIC codes are being developed constantly. It is therefore important to compare different PIC codes to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Soham Banerjee , Joseph R. Smith , Chris Orban

Integrals of the Liouville $1$-form, known as the first Poincar\'e integral invariant, provide a computable figure of merit for monitoring the conservation of symplecticity in the numerical integration of Hamiltonian systems. These…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 William Barham , J. W. Burby

We present a new technique for transferring momentum and velocity between particles and grid with Particle-In-Cell (PIC) calculations which we call Affine-Particle-In-Cell (APIC). APIC represents particle velocities as locally affine,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Chenfanfu Jiang , Craig Schroeder , Joseph Teran

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a ubiquitous numerical method for solving the fluid equations, and is prized for its conservation properties, natural adaptivity, and simplicity. We introduce the Sphenix SPH scheme, which was…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-17 Josh Borrow , Matthieu Schaller , Richard G. Bower , Joop Schaye

The process of numerical thermalization in particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations has been studied extensively. It is analogous to Coulomb collisions in real plasmas, causing particle velocity distributions (VDFs) to evolve towards a Maxwellian…

Due to its flexible architecture, FPGAs support unique, deep hardware pipeline implementations for accelerating HPC applications. However, these devices are quite new in the HPC space, and thus, have been scarcely explored outside some…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Nicolas Lee Guidotti

In simulations of partial differential equations using particle-in-cell (PIC) methods, it is often advantageous to resample the particle distribution function to increase simulation accuracy, reduce compute cost, and/or avoid numerical…

Three-dimensional (3D) particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations are used to investigate the interaction of ultrahigh intensity lasers ($> 10^{20}$ W/cm$^{-2}$) with matter at overcritical densities. Intense laser pulses are shown to penetrate up…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-05-15 F. Fiuza , R. A. Fonseca , L. O. Silva , J. Tonge , J. May , W. B. Mori

We demonstrate a novel setup for hybrid particle-in-cell simulations designed to isolate the physics of the shock precursor over long time periods for significantly lower computational cost than previous methods. This is achieved using a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-22 Emily R. Simon , Damiano Caprioli , Colby C. Haggerty , Brian Reville

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), comprising both software and physical components, arise in many industry-relevant domains and are often mission- or safety-critical. System-Level Verification (SLV) of CPSs aims at certifying that given (e.g.,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Toni Mancini , Igor Melatti , Enrico Tronci

The Particle-in-Cell (PIC) method was used to study two different ion thruster concepts - Stationary Plasma Thrusters (SPT) and High Efficiency Multistage Plasma Thrusters (HEMP-T), in particular the plasma properties in the discharge…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 K. Matyash , R. Schneider , A. Mutzke , O. Kalentev , F. Taccogna , N. Koch , M. Schirra

Modern ultra-intense laser facilities can generate electromagnetic fields strong enough to accelerate particles to near-light speeds over micron-scale distances and also approach the QED critical field, resulting in highly nonlinear and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Q. Qian , D. Seipt , M. Vranic , T. Grismayer , C. P. Ridgers , A. G. R. Thomas

All-atom, force field-based molecular dynamics simulations are essential tools in computational chemistry, enabling the prediction and analysis of biomolecular systems with atomic-level resolution. However, as system sizes and simulation…

For conventional smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), obtaining the static solution of a problem is time-consuming. To address this drawback, we propose an efficient dynamic relaxation method by adding large artificial-viscosity-based…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Yujie Zhu , Chi Zhang , Xiangyu Hu

Liquid-fabric interaction simulations using particle-in-cell (PIC) based models have been used to simulate a wide variety of phenomena and yield impressive visual results. However, these models suffer from numerical damping due to the data…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Robert Dennison , Steve Maddock

We show that the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method, used with individual time-steps in the way described in the literature, cannot handle strong explosion problems correctly. In the individual time-step scheme, particles…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Takayuki R. Saitoh , Junichiro Makino

The solidification behavior of liquid metal in a container under rapid cooling process is one of the major concerns to be analyzed. In order to analyze its fundamental behavior, a three- dimensional (3D) fluid dynamics simulation was…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-09-18 Raden Ahnaf Faqih S , Christian Fredy Naa

In this review, we describe and analyze a mesoscale simulation method for fluid flow, which was introduced by Malevanets and Kapral in 1999, and is now called multi-particle collision dynamics (MPC) or stochastic rotation dynamics (SRD).…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Gompper , T. Ihle , D. M. Kroll , R. G. Winkler