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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…

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In simulations of partial differential equations using particle-in-cell (PIC) methods, it is often advantageous to resample the particle distribution function to increase simulation accuracy, reduce compute cost, and/or avoid numerical…

Interest in air breakdown phenomena has recently been re-kindled with the advent of advanced virtual prototyping of radio frequency (RF) sources for use in high power microwave (HPM) weapons technology. Air breakdown phenomena are of…

Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations spend most of their execution time on particle--grid interactions, where fine-grained atomic updates become a major bottleneck on traditional many-core CPUs. Recent CPU architectures integrate specialized…

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Particle in Cell (PIC) simulations have become a vital tool for the investigation of kinetic processes in plasma physics. Many of the systems investigated with PIC simulations contain particles with relativistic velocities. The correct…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Holger Schmitz

Numerical simulations have become an important tool to understand and predict non-perturbative phenomena in particle physics. In this article we attempt to present a general overview over the field. First, the basic concepts of lattice…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-12-17 F. Karsch , E. Laermann

The set of externally visible properties associated with process variables in the Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) is predefined in the EPICS base distribution and is therefore not extensible by plug-compatible…

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We study parallel particle-in-cell (PIC) methods for low-temperature plasmas (LTPs), which discretize kinetic formulations that capture the time evolution of the probability density function of particles as a function of position and…

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Soft particles at fluid interfaces play an important role in many aspects of our daily life, such as the food industry, paints and coatings, and medical applications. Analytical methods are not capable of describing the emergent effects of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 Maarten Wouters , Othmane Aouane , Timm Krueger , Jens Harting

Particle suspensions are ubiquitous in our daily life, but are not well understood due to their complexity. During the last twenty years, various simulation methods have been developed in order to model these systems. Due to varying…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-03-16 Jens Harting , Martin Hecht , Hans J. Herrmann , Sean McNamara

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.…

Quasistatic particle-in-cell (PIC) codes are increasingly employed to study laser or plasma wakefield accelerators. By decoupling the slow dynamics of the driver (a laser or ultrarelativistic particle beam) from the fast plasma response,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Q. Labro , X. Davoine , L. Gremillet , L. Bergé

Multiparticle collision dynamics (MPCD) is a flexible and robust mesoscale computational technique for simulating solvent-mediated hydrodynamic interactions in soft materials. Here, we provide a critical overview of the MPCD method and…

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Quantum Computing promises accelerated simulation of certain classes of problems, in particular in plasma physics. Given the nascent interest in applying quantum computing techniques to study plasma systems, a compendium of the relevant…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-02-02 Óscar Amaro , Diogo Cruz

We introduce a Galilean electromagnetic particle-in-cell (GEM-PIC) algorithm, which transforms the full set of Maxwell equations and the Vlasov equation into the boosted coordinates. This approach preserves the electromagnetic structure of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Alexander Pukhov , Nina Elkina , Tom Wilson

High-intensity laser plasma interactions create complex computational problems because they involve both fluid and kinetic regimes, which need models that maintain physical precision while keeping computational speed. The research…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Sadra Saremi , Amirhossein Ahmadkhan Kordbacheh

In a first course to classical mechanics elementary physical processes like elastic two-body collisions, the mass-spring model, or the gravitational two-body problem are discussed in detail. The continuation to many-body systems, however,…

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We present a fully modular and scalable software pipeline for processing electron microscope (EM) images of brain slices into 3D visualization of individual neurons and demonstrate an end-to-end segmentation of a large EM volume using a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Rafael Vescovi , Hanyu Li , Jeffery Kinnison , Murat Keceli , Misha Salim , Narayanan Kasthuri , Thomas D. Uram , Nicola Ferrier

A three-dimensional, parallelized implementation of the electromagnetic relativistic moment implicit particle-in-cell method in Cartesian geometry (Noguchi et. al., 2007) is presented. Particular care was taken to keep the C++11 codebase…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 Andreas Kempf , Patrick Kilian , Urs Ganse , Cedric Schreiner , Felix Spanier

This review aims at providing an up-to-date status and a general introduction to the subject of the numerical study of energetic particle acceleration and transport in turbulent astrophysical flows. The subject is also complemented by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-26 A. Marcowith , G. Ferrand , M. Grech , Z. Meliani , I. Plotnikov , R. Walder