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A fundamental task in particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of plasma physics is solving for charged particle motion in electromagnetic fields. This problem is especially challenging when the plasma is strongly magnetized due to numerical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Tri P. Nguyen , Ilon Joseph , Mayya Tokman

We present a new hybrid algorithm implemented in the code CHIEF (Code Hybrid with Inertial Electron Fluid) for simulations of electron-ion plasmas. The algorithm treats the ions kinetically, modeled by the Particle-in-Cell (PiC) method, and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-02-27 P. A. Muñoz , N. Jain , P. Kilian , J. Büchner

This work introduces CLIP, a CUDA-accelerated phase-field lattice Boltzmann framework for simulating immiscible two-phase flows with high density and viscosity ratios in both two- and three-dimensional domains. By leveraging GPU…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-20 Mehdi Shadkhah , Mohammad Taeibi Rahni , Azadeh Kebriaee , Mohammad Reza Salimi

We present the standard electromagnetic Particle-in-Cell method, starting from the discrete approximation of derivatives on a uniform grid. The application to second-order, centered, finite-difference discretization of the equations of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-18 J. L. Vay

A customized finite-difference field solver for the particle-in-cell (PIC) algorithm that provides higher fidelity for wave-particle interactions in intense electromagnetic waves is presented. In many problems of interest, particles with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Fei Li , Kyle G. Miller , Xinlu Xu , Frank S. Tsung , Viktor K. Decyk , Weiming An , Ricardo A. Fonseca , Warren B. Mori

The particle-in-cell (PIC) method is widely used to model the self-consistent interaction between discrete particles and electromagnetic fields. It has been successfully applied to problems across plasma physics including plasma based…

Particle-in-Cell (PIC) approach for modeling dense granular flows has gained popularity in recent years due to its time to solution efficiency. The methodology is useful for modeling large-scale systems with a relatively lower computational…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-03 Aytekin Gel , Avinash Vaidheeswaran , Mary Ann Clarke

In this paper, we develop a novel numerical framework, namely the stochastic interacting particle-field method with particle-in-cell acceleration (SIPF-PIC), for the efficient simulation of the three-dimensional (3D) parabolic-parabolic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Jingyuan Hu , Zhongjian Wang , Jack Xin , Zhiwen Zhang

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

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

Particle accelerator modeling is an important field of research and development, essential to investigating, designing and operating some of the most complex scientific devices ever built. Kinetic simulations of relativistic, charged…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-05-02 Ryan T. Sandberg , Remi Lehe , Chad E. Mitchell , Marco Garten , Andrew Myers , Ji Qiang , Jean-Luc Vay , Axel Huebl

We use particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations and simple analytic models to investigate the laser-plasma interaction known as ponderomotive steepening. When normally incident laser light reflects at the critical surface of a plasma, the…

Lipid membranes have complex compositions and modeling the thermodynamic properties of multi-component lipid systems remains a remote goal. In this work we attempt to describe the thermodynamics of binary lipid mixtures by mapping…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-09-04 L. Berezovska , R. Kociurzynski , F. Thalmann

In our recent work [H. Zhang, F.X. Trias, A. Oliva, D. Yang, Y. Tan, Y. Sheng. PIBM: Particulate immersed boundary method for fluid-particle interaction problems. Powder Technology. 272(2015), 1-13.], a particulate immersed boundary method…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-02-05 Hao Zhang , Haizhuan Yuan , F. Xavier Trias , Aibing Yu , Yuanqiang Tan , Assensi Oliva

The Unified Gas-Kinetic Wave-Particle (UGKWP) method is constructed for partially ionized plasma (PIP). This method possesses both multiscale and unified preserving (UP) properties. The multiscale property allows the method to capture a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-07-12 Zhigang Pu , Kun Xu

Particle-In-Cell (PIC) codes are broadly applied to the kinetic simulation of plasmas, from laser-matter interaction to astrophysics. Their heavy simulation cost can be mitigated by using the Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD)…

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

We present the IAMReX, an adaptive and parallel solver for particle-resolved simulations on the multi-level grid. The fluid equations are solved using a finite-volume scheme on the block-structured semi-staggered grids with both subcycling…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-27 Xuzhu Li , Chun Li , Xiaokai Li , Wenzhuo Li , Mingze Tang , Yadong Zeng , Zhengping Zhu

We propose a novel framework for simulating ink as a particle-laden flow using particle flow maps. Our method addresses the limitations of existing flow-map techniques, which struggle with dissipative forces like viscosity and drag, thereby…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Zhiqi Li , Duowen Chen , Candong Lin , Jinyuan Liu , Bo Zhu

We present a novel multiscale numerical approach that combines parallel-in-time computation with hybrid domain adaptation for linear collisional kinetic equations in the diffusive regime. The method addresses the computational challenges of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Tino Laidin