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In this work, we have developed a multiscale computational algorithm to couple finite element method with an open source molecular dynamics code --- the Large scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator (LAMMPS) --- to perform…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-09-17 Takahiro Murashima , Shingo Urata , Shaofan Li

Three-dimensional Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations with the code QuickPIC are used to illustrate the typical accelerating structures associated with the interaction of an intense laser beam with an underdense plasma in the blowout regime.…

The plasma edge flow, situated at the intricate boundary between plasma and neutral particles, plays a pivotal role in the design of nuclear fusion devices such as divertors and pumps. Traditional numerical simulation methods, such as the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-11-14 Yifan Wen , Yanbing Zhang , Lei Wu

Particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations are essential for studying kinetic plasma processes, but they often suffer from statistical noise, especially in plasmas with fast flows. We have also found that the typical central difference scheme used…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Yuxi Chen , Hongyang Zhou , Gabor Toth

We present a data-driven reduced-order modeling of the space-charge dynamics for electromagnetic particle-in-cell (EMPIC) plasma simulations based on dynamic mode decomposition (DMD). The dynamics of the charged particles in kinetic plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Indranil Nayak , Fernando L. Teixeira , Dong-Yeop Na , Mrinal Kumar , Yuri A. Omelchenko

Laser plasma instabilities (LPIs) have significant influences on the laser energy deposition efficiency, hot electron generation, and uniformity of irradiation in inertial confined fusion (ICF). In contrast to theoretical analysis of linear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Hanghang Ma , Liwei Tan , Suming Weng , Wenjun Ying , Zhengming Sheng , Jie Zhang

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

This study presents a finite element and virtual element (FE-VE) coupled method for thermomechanical analysis in electronic packaging structures. The approach partitions computational domains strategically, employing FEM for regular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Yanpeng Gong , Sishuai Li , Yue Mei , Bingbing Xu , Fei Qin , Xiaoying Zhuang , Timon Rabczuk

Recent development of structure-preserving geometric particle-in-cell (PIC) algorithms for Vlasov-Maxwell systems is summarized. With the arriving of 100 petaflop and exaflop computing power, it is now possible to carry out direct…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Jianyuan Xiao , Hong Qin , Jian Liu

Elucidating the biomechanical behavior of the myocardium is crucial for understanding cardiac physiology, but cannot be directly inferred from clinical imaging and typically requires finite element (FE) simulations. However, conventional FE…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Siyu Mu , Wei Xuan Chan , Choon Hwai Yap

This study addresses the challenge of simulating realistic particle systems by proposing a novel particle decomposition scheme that improves the parallel performance of surface resolved particle simulations. Realistic particle systems often…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-21 J. E. Marquardt , N. Hafen , M. J. Krause

In this work, we derive particle schemes, based on micro-macro decomposition, for linear kinetic equations in the diffusion limit. Due to the particle approximation of the micro part, a splitting between the transport and the collision part…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-19 Anaïs Crestetto , Nicolas Crouseilles , Mohammed Lemou

The kinetic analyses are quite important when it comes to understand the particle behavior in any device as they start to deviate from continuum nature. In the present study, kinetic simulations are performed using Particle-in-Cell (PIC)…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-12-15 D. Bhattacharjee , S. Adhikari , N. Buzarbaruah , S. R. Mohanty

ipie is a Python-based auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) package that has undergone substantial improvements since its initial release [J. Chem. Theory Comput., 2023, 19(1): 109-121]. This paper outlines the improved modularity…

We describe a method for coupling an embedded domain in a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation with a particle-in-cell (PIC) method. In this two-way coupling we follow the work of Daldorff et al. in which the PIC domain receives its initial…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Kirit Makwana , Rony Keppens , Giovanni Lapenta

Electromagnetic particle-in-cell (PIC) codes are widely used to perform computer simulations of a variety of physical systems, including fusion plasmas, astrophysical plasmas, plasma wakefield particle accelerators, and secondary photon…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Edoardo Zoni , Remi Lehe , Olga Shapoval , Daniel Belkin , Neil Zaïm , Luca Fedeli , Henri Vincenti , Jean-Luc Vay

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

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 this work, an implicit scheme for particle-in-cell/Fourier electromagnetic simulations is developed and applied to studies of Alfv\'en waves in one dimension and three-dimensional tokamak plasmas. An analytical treatment is introduced to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Z. X. Lu , G. Meng , M. Hoelzl , Ph. Lauber

E(A+M)PEC traces the ionization structure, cooling and emission spectra of plasmas. It is written in OpenCL, runs in NVIDIA Graphics Processor Units and can be coupled to any HD or MHD code to follow the dynamical and thermal evolution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-19 Miguel A. de Avillez , Emanuele Spitoni , Dieter Breitschwerdt