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The Weibel instability is investigated with PIC simulations of an initially unmagnetized and spatially uniform electron plasma. This instability, which is driven by the thermally anisotropic electron distribution, generates electromagnetic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 A Stockem , M E Dieckmann , R Schlickeiser

With the approach of exascale computing era, particle-based models are becoming the focus of research due to their excellent scalability. We present a new code, Slurm, which implements the classic particle-in-cell algorithm for modeling…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Vyacheslav Olshevsky , Fabio Bacchini , Stefaan Poedts , Giovanni Lapenta

Dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) and multi-particle collision (MPC) dynamics are powerful tools to study mesoscale hydrodynamic phenomena accompanied by thermal fluctuations. To understand the advantages of these types of mesoscale…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Hiroshi Noguchi , Norio Kikuchi , Gerhard Gompper

The dynamics of two initially unmagnetized relativistic counter-streaming homogeneous ion-electron plasma beams are simulated in two dimensions using the particle-in-cell (PIC) method. It is shown that current filaments, which form due to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-23 Rahul Kumar , David Eichler , Michael Gedalin

For decades, the Vlasov-Darwin model has been recognized to be attractive for particle-in-cell (PIC) kinetic plasma simulations in non-radiative electromagnetic regimes, to avoid radiative noise issues and gain computational efficiency.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Guangye Chen , Luis Chacon

The family of generalized Pseudo-Spectral Time Domain (including the Pseudo-Spectral Analytical Time Domain) Particle-in-Cell algorithms offers substantial versatility for simulating particle beams and plasmas, and well written codes using…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Brendan B. Godfrey , Jean-Luc Vay

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have been applied to simulate multiphase flows, yet they are limited in modeling phase changes and sharp interfaces due to optimization conflicts in the strongly coupled Allen-Cahn, Cahn-Hilliard,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Guoqiang Lei , Zhihua Wang , Lijing Zhou , D. Exposito , Xuerui Mao

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…

This paper explores the time-domain equations of noble metals, in which Drude model is adopted to describe the dielectric constant, to implement three-dimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations for the surface plasmon excitation with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 La-Qun Liu , Gui-Lian Zhao , Hui-Hui Wang , Da-Gang Liu

For the self-consistent description of various plasma sources operated in the low-pressure (nonlocal, kinetic) regime, the Particle-In-Cell simulation approach, combined with the Monte Carlo treatment of collision processes (PIC/MCC), has…

We study the application of deep learning techniques to the analysis and classification of ions accelerated at collisionless shocks in hybrid (kinetic ions--fluid electrons) simulations. Ions were classified as thermal, suprathermal, or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-24 Paxson Swierc , Damiano Caprioli , Luca Orusa , Miha Cernetic

We present the Photon-Plasma code, a modern high order charge conserving particle-in-cell code for simulating relativistic plasmas. The code is using a high order implicit field solver and a novel high order charge conserving interpolation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Troels Haugboelle , Jacob Trier Frederiksen , Aake Nordlund

Despite their ubiquity, the rich physics present in a plasma sheath has inhibited the development of a generally applicable description of this critical region. The present study utilizes a physics-informed neural network (PINN) to evaluate…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Ethan Webb , Yuzhi Li , Christopher McDevitt

We extend the recently-developed explicit, energy-conserving particle-in-cell (PIC) scheme of [1] to the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system. As in the non-relativistic case, the method is built on an optimization problem that is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Lee Ricketson , Jingwei Hu

We present a simple and computationally efficient coarse-grained and solvent-free model for simulating lipid bilayer membranes. In order to be used in concert with particle-based reaction-diffusion simulations, the model is purely based on…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Mohsen Sadeghi , Thomas R. Weikl , Frank Noé

An electrostatic, implicit particle-in-cell (PIC) model for collisionless, fully magnetized, paraxial plasma expansions in a magnetic nozzle is introduced with exact charge, energy, and magnetic moment conservation properties. The approach…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Pedro Jimenez , Luis Chacon , Mario Merino

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

This study presents two different machine learning approaches for the modeling of hydrodynamic force on particles in a particle-laden multiphase flow. Results from particle-resolved direct numerical simulations (PR-DNS) of flow over a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-15 S. Balachandar , W. C. Moore , G. Akiki , K. Liu

The implicit 2D3V particle-in-cell (PIC) code developed to study the interaction of ultrashort pulse lasers with matter [G. M. Petrov and J. Davis, Computer Phys. Comm. 179, 868 (2008); Phys. Plasmas 18, 073102 (2011)] has been parallelized…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 George M. Petrov , Jack Davis

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