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The advent of high-power Hall thrusters and the increasing interest towards their use as a primary propulsion system for various missions have given a new boost to the efforts aiming at self-consistent predictive modeling of this thruster…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-06-10 Farbod Faraji , Maryam Reza , Aaron Knoll

Space-charge effects play an important role in high intensity particle accelerators and were studied using a variety of macroparticle tracking models. In this paper, we propose a symplectic particle-in-cell (PIC) model and compare this…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 Ji Qiang

Particle-in-cell merging algorithms aim to resample dynamically the six-dimensional phase space occupied by particles without distorting substantially the physical description of the system. Whereas various approaches have been proposed in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-11-16 Marija Vranic , Thomas Grismayer , Joana L. Martins , Ricardo A. Fonseca , Luis O. Silva

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

Particle acceleration in collisionless plasma systems is a central question in astroplasma and astroparticle physics. The structure of the acceleration regions, electron-ion energy equilibration, preacceleration of particles at shocks to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-19 Martin Pohl , Masahiro Hoshino , Jacek Niemiec

Our fully kinetic, implicit Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations of global magnetospheres on up to 32,768 of El Capitan's AMD Instinct MI300A Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) represent an unprecedented computational capability that…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Stefano Markidis , Andong Hu , Ivy Peng , Luca Pennati , Ian Lumsden , Dewi Yokelson , Stephanie Brink , Olga Pearce , Thomas R. W. Scogland , Bronis R. de Supinski , Gian Luca Delzanno , Michela Taufer

picFoam is a fully kinetic electrostatic Particle-in-Cell(PIC) solver, including Monte Carlo Collisions(MCC), for non-equilibrium plasma research in the open-source framework of OpenFOAM. The solver's modular design, based on the same…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-02-09 Christoph Kühn , Rodion Groll

Modern particle-in-cell (PIC) codes have become an integral tool in plasma astrophysics. As most plasma phenomena grow from initially small instabilities, it is important to ensure PIC codes can suppress noise and ensure that any growing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-18 Ludwig M. Böss , Arno Vanthieghem , Hayk Hakobyan , Evgeny A. Gorbunov , Damiano Caprioli

A new method capable of capturing coherent electric field structures propagating at nearly the speed of light in plasma with a time resolution as small as a few femtoseconds is proposed. This method uses a few femtoseconds long relativistic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-10-19 C. J. Zhang , J. F. Hua , X. L. Xu , F. Li , C. -H. Pai , Y. Wan , Y. P. Wu , Y. Q. Gu , W. B. Mori , C. Joshi , W. Lu

Real-time lattice quantum electrodynamics (QED) provides a unique tool for simulating plasmas in the strong-field regime, where collective plasma scales are not well-separated from relativistic-quantum scales. As a toy model, we study…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 Yuan Shi , Jianyuan Xiao , Hong Qin , Nathaniel J. Fisch

Avoided crossing of resonances and merging multiple bound states in the continuum (BICs) are parallel means for tailoring the physical properties of BICs. Herein, we introduce a new concept of super quasi-BIC for photonic crystal (PhC)…

This paper concerns development of a high-performance implementation of the Particle-in-Cell method for plasma simulation on Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors. We discuss suitability of the method for Xeon Phi architecture and present our…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-08-05 I. A. Surmin , S. I. Bastrakov , E. S. Efimenko , A. A. Gonoskov , A. V. Korzhimanov , I. B. Meyerov

In this paper we present a newly developed GRPIC code framework called FPIC, providing a detailed description of the Maxwell-equations solver, of the particle ``pushers'', and of the other algorithms that are needed in this approach. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-11 Claudio Meringolo , Luciano Rezzolla

We present a numerical framework for the simulation of collisional plasma dynamics, based on a coupling between Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) and Particle-in-Cell (PIC) methods for the Vlasov-Maxwell-Landau system. The approach…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Andrea Medaglia , Lorenzo Pareschi , Mattia Zanella

Optical metasurfaces have revolutionized analog computing and image processing at sub-wavelength scales with faster speed and lower power consumption. They typically involve spatial differentiation with engineered angular dispersion.…

Many high power electronic devices operate in a regime where the current they draw is limited by the self-fields of the particles. This space-charge-limited current poses particular challenges for numerical modeling where common techniques…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-07 Peter H. Stoltz , John W. Luginsland , Andrew M. Chap , David N. Smithe , John R. Cary

Previous theoretical considerations of electron beam relaxation in inhomogeneous plasmas have indicated that the effects of the irregular solar wind may account for the poor agreement of homogeneous modelling with the observations.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-12-15 J. O. Thurgood , D. Tsiklauri

We discuss a spectral method for the numerical solution of the Vlasov-Poisson system where the velocity space is decomposed by means of an Hermite basis. We describe a semi-implicit time discretization that extends the range of numerical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-12-19 Enrico Camporeale , Gian Luca Delzanno , Benjamin K. Bergen , J. David Moulton

We introduce $\texttt{A}$strophysical $\texttt{H}$ybrid-$\texttt{K}$inetic simulations with the $\texttt{flASH}$ code ($\texttt{AHKASH}$) -- a new Hybrid particle-in-cell (PIC) code developed within the framework of the multi-physics code…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-24 Radhika Achikanath Chirakkara , Christoph Federrath , Amit Seta

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