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1.5D PIC, relativistic, fully electromagnetic (EM) simulations are used to model EM wave emission generation in the context of solar type III radio bursts. The model studies generation of EM waves by a super-thermal, hot beam of electrons…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-10 D. Tsiklauri

We benchmark and analyze the error of energy conservation (EC) scheme for Particle in cell/Monte-Carlo Couple (PIC/MCC) algorithms by a radio frequency discharging simulation. The plasma heating behaviors and electron distributing functions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-01-30 Wang Hong-Yu , Jiang Wei , Sun Peng , Kong Ling-Bao

The effect of a uniform magnetic field on particle transport in low-pressure radio frequency (RF) capacitively coupled plasma (CCP) has been studied using a particle-in-cell (PIC) model. Three distinct regimes of plasma behavior can be…

Capacitively coupled plasmas (CCP) comprise one of the main tool in active use in the plasma processing industry. However, increasing the driving frequency and electrode size is limited by the emergence of plasma radial nonuniformity…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-03-03 D. Eremin , E. Kemaneci , M. Matsukuma , I. Kaganovich , T. Mussenbrock , R. P. Brinkmann

A minimal model for magnetic reconnection and, generally, low-frequency dynamics in low-beta plasmas is proposed. The model combines analytical and computational simplicity with physical realizability: it is a rigorous limit of gyrokinetics…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-10-25 Alessandro Zocco , Alexander Schekochihin

In this paper, we introduce and discuss an exactly energy-conserving Particle-in-Cell method for arbitrary curvilinear coordinates. The flexibility provided by curvilinear coordinates enables the study of plasmas in complex-shaped domains…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-30 Joost Croonen , Luca Pezzini , Fabio Bacchini , Giovanni Lapenta

The Particle-In-Cell (PIC) method for plasma simulation tracks particle phase space information using particle and grid data structures. High computational costs in 2D and 3D device-scale PIC simulations necessitate parallelization, with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Libn Varghese , Bhaskar Chaudhury , Miral Shah , Mainak Bandyopadhyay

Resonant scattering of energetic protons off magnetic irregularities is the main process in cosmic ray diffusion. The typical theoretical description uses Alfven waves in the low frequency limit. We demonstrate that the usage of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-09 Cedric Schreiner , Felix Spanier

The paper presents a 1D2V electrostatic PIC model with a drift-kinetic description of all particle types aiming at simulating classical longitudinal plasma transport in axially symmetric open traps. The model generalizes the semi-implicit…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 V. V. Glinskiy , I. V. Timofeev , V. V. Prikhodko

Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulation codes have wide applicability to first-principles modeling of multidimensional nonlinear plasma phenomena, including wake-field accelerators. This review addresses both finite difference and pseudo-spectral…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-08-07 Brendan B. Godfrey

A simulation package employing a Particle in Cell (PIC) method is developed to study the high current beam transport and the dynamics of plasmas. This package includes subroutines those are suited for various planned projects at University…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-06-21 N. Joshi

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-05-06 T. Tueckmantel , J. Liljo , A. Pukhov , M. Hochbruck

Direct studies of intense laser-solid interactions is still of great challenges, because of the many coupled physical mechanisms, such as direct laser heating, ionization dynamics, collision among charged particles, and electrostatic or…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-03-16 D. Wu , X. T. He , W. Yu , S. Fritzsche

The problem of the linear microtearing mode in a slab magnetised plasma, and its connection to kinetic reconnecting modes, is addressed. Electrons are described using a novel hybrid fluid-kinetic model that captures electron heating, ions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 A Zocco , N F Loureiro , D Dickinson , R Numata , C M Roach

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

We simulate decaying turbulence in electron-positron pair plasmas using a fully- kinetic particle-in-cell (PIC) code. We run two simulations with moderate-to-low plasma beta. The energy decay rate is found to be similar in both the cases.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-08-30 Kirit Makwana , Hui Li , Fan Guo , Xiaocan Li

The plasma in low-luminosity accretion flows, such as the one around the black hole at the center of M87 or Sgr A* at our Galactic Center, is expected to be collisioness and two-temperature, with protons hotter than electrons. Here,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-12 Michael E. Rowan , Lorenzo Sironi , Ramesh Narayan

As proved by previous study, the similarity of electromagnetic processes in plasmas will be violated by Coulomb collisions between electron and ions. Therefore, there is no similarity in highly ionized collisional plasma. But the situation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Jiansheng Yao , Yingkui Zhao , Hantian Zhang , Difa Ye , Biyao Ouyang

Global particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of pulsar magnetospheres are performed with a volume, surface and pair production-based plasma injection schemes to systematically investigate the transition between electrosphere and force-free…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-16 Fábio Cruz , Thomas Grismayer , Alexander Y. Chen , Anatoly Spitkovsky , Ricardo A. Fonseca , Luis O. Silva

A large diameter plasma over 300 mm in diameter is produced by electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) discharges using a newly developed large diameter chamber of 400 mm in inner diameter. It is found that the electron temperature decreases as…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mayuko Koga , Yasuhiro Hishikawa , Hayato Tsuchiya , Yoshinobu Kawai