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We present PICsar -- a new Particle in Cell code geared towards efficiently simulating the magnetosphere of the aligned rotator. PICsar is a special relativistic, electromagnetic, charge conservative code that can be used to simulate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-02 Mikhail Belyaev

Constant potential methods (CPM) enable computationally efficient simulations of the solid-liquid interface at conducting electrodes in molecular dynamics (MD). They have been successfully used, for example, to realistically model the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-07-29 Ludwig J. V. Ahrens-Iwers , Mathijs Janssen , Shern R. Tee , Robert H. Meißner

A hybrid Maxwell solver for fully relativistic and electromagnetic (EM) particle-in-cell (PIC) codes is described. In this solver, the EM fields are solved in $k$ space by performing an FFT in one direction, while using finite difference…

We present EZ, a novel current deposition algorithm for particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. EZ calculates the current density on the electromagnetic grid due to macro-particle motion within a time step by solving the continuity equation of…

The Particle-In-Cell (PIC) method is widely used in relativistic particle beam and laser plasma modeling. However, the PIC method exhibits numerical instabilities that can render unphysical simulation results or even destroy the simulation.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 M. D. Meyers , C. -K. Huang , Y. Zeng , S. A. Yi , B. J. Albright

This paper presents a novel 3-D full electromagnetic particle-in-cell (PIC) code called JefiPIC, which uses Jefimenko's equations as the electromagnetic (EM) field solver through a full-space integration method. Leveraging the power of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Jiannan Chen , Jun-Jie Zhang , Xueming Li , Hai-Liang Qiao , Yongtao Zhao

The traditional explicit electrostatic momentum-conserving Particle-in-cell algorithm requires strict resolution of the electron Debye length to deliver numerical accuracy. The explicit electrostatic energy-conserving Particle-in-Cell…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-31 Andrew T. Powis , Igor D. Kaganovich

We consider the approximation of the 2D frictionless contact problem in elasticity using the Virtual Element Methods (VEMs). To overcome the volumetric locking phenomenon in the nearly incompressible case, we adopt a mixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-07 C. Lovadina , L. Molinari

We present an efficient and accurate energy-conserving implicit particle-in-cell~(PIC) algorithm for the electrostatic Vlasov system, with particular emphasis on its high robustness for simulating complex plasma systems with multiple…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-11-21 Zhuoning Li , Zhenli Xu , Zhiguo Yang

The Energy Conserving Semi-Implicit Method (ECSIM) introduced by Lapenta (2017) has many advantageous properties compared to the classical semi-implicit and explicit PIC methods. Most importantly, energy conservation eliminates the growth…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Yuxi Chen , Gabor Toth

In this article we propose and numerically implement a mathematical model for the simulation of three-dimensional semiconductor devices characterized by an heterogeneous material structure. The model consists of a system of nonlinearly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-12 A. Mauri , R. Sacco , M. Verri

Constant potential molecular dynamics simulation plays important role for applications of electrochemical systems, yet the calculation of charge fluctuation on electrodes remains a computational bottleneck. We propose a highly scalable,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Weihang Gao , Qi Zhou , Qianru Zhang , Zhenli Xu

We explore the possibilities of applying structure-preserving numerical methods to a plasma hybrid model with kinetic ions and mass-less fluid electrons satisfying the quasi-neutrality relation. The numerical schemes are derived by finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Yingzhe Li , Martin Campos Pinto , Florian Holderied , Stefan Possanner , Eric Sonnendrücker

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…

It is described, explicitly, how a popular, commercially-available software package for solving partial-differential-equations (PDEs), as based on the finite-element method (FEM), can be configured to calculate the frequencies and fields of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mark Oxborrow

Using the ``composite harmonic mapping method," we construct exact solutions for cylindrically symmetric gravitational and electromagnetic waves within the Einstein-Maxwell system, focusing on the conversion dynamics between these types of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-08 Takashi Mishima , Shinya Tomizawa

Particle-mesh methods, such as the particle-in-cell (PIC) method, cannot retain exact pairwise interaction at sub-cell scales. For dense nonneutral relativistic electron bunches, this makes it difficult to accurately capture the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Yinjian Zhao , Yibo Liang , Yanan Zhang , Xiaochun Ma , Hui Liu

In this article, we design Asymptotic-Preserving Particle-In-Cell methods for the Vlasov-Maxwell system in the quasi-neutral limit, this limit being characterized by a Debye length negligible compared to the space scale of the problem.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-09-15 Pierre Degond , Fabrice Deluzet , David Doyen

We extend the recently developed entropic and conservative variance reduction framework [M. Sadr, N. G. Hadjiconstantinou, A variance-reduced direct Monte Carlo simulation method for solving the Boltzmann equation over a wide range of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Victor Windhab , Andreas Adelmann , Mohsen Sadr

Entity is a new-generation, fully open-source particle-in-cell (PIC) code developed to overcome key limitations in astrophysical plasma modeling, particularly the extreme separation of scales and the performance challenges associated with…