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This paper describes a new code for simulating astrophysical plasmas that solves a hybrid model composed of gyrokinetic ions (GKI) and an isothermal electron fluid (ITEF) [A. Schekochihin et al., Astrophys. J. Suppl. \textbf{182}, 310…
In this work we present recent results on application of low-rank tensor decompositions to modelling of aggregation kinetics taking into account multi-particle collisions (for three and more particles). Such kinetics can be described by…
In this paper we give a general account of Wave Interaction Theory which by now consists of two parts: kinetic wave turbulence theory (WTT), using a statistical description of wave interactions, and the D-model recently introduced in…
Discrete particle simulations have become the standard in science and industrial applications exploring the properties of particulate systems. Most of such simulations rely on the concept of interacting spherical particles to describe the…
We present a Vlasov-DArwin numerical code (ViDA) specifically designed to address plasma physics problems, where small-scale high accuracy is requested even during the non linear regime to guarantee a clean description of the plasma…
Particle-wave interaction is of fundamental interest in plasma physics, especially in the study of runaway electrons in magnetic confinement fusion. Analogous to the concept of photons and phonons, wave packets in plasma can also be treated…
This work is a numerical study of a transitional shock wave boundary layer interaction (SWBLI). The main goal is to improve our understanding of the well known low-frequency SWBLI unsteadiness and especially the suspected role of triadic…
A unified numerically solvable framework for dispersion relations with arbitrary number of species drifting at arbitrary directions and with Krook collision is derived for linear uniform/homogenous kinetic plasma, which largely extended the…
The dissipation mechanism of the magnetic energy in turbulent collisionless space and astrophysical plasmas is still not well understood. Its investigation requires efficient kinetic simulations of the energy transfer in collisionless…
Simulating fully kinetic, two-species plasmas is computationally challenging due to the stiff multiscale dynamics of electrons and ions. While enforcing a quasi-neutral time evolution mitigates this stiffness, it requires an electric…
This article introduces TinyDEM, a lightweight implementation of a full-fledged discrete element method (DEM) solver in 3D. Newton's damped equations of motion are solved explicitly for translations and rotations of a polydisperse ensemble…
Kinetic equations are difficult to solve numerically due to their high dimensionality. A promising approach for reducing computational cost is the dynamical low-rank algorithm, which decouples the dimensions of the phase space by proposing…
We present Fiend - a simulation package for three-dimensional single-particle time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation for cylindrically symmetric systems. Fiend has been designed for the simulation of electron dynamics under inhomogeneus…
Energy transfer across scales is fundamental in fluid dynamics, linking large-scale flow motions to small-scale turbulent structures in engineering and natural environments. Triadic interactions among three wave components form complex…
Kinetic model of three component, weakly ionized, collisional plasma with a beam of neutral particles is developed. New dispersion relations for linear perturbations are derived and analyzed in various limiting cases.
Fractal TRIDYN (F-TRIDYN) is a modified version of the widely used Monte Carlo, Binary Collision Approximation code TRIDYN that includes an explicit model of surface roughness and additional output modes for coupling to plasma edge and…
A new scheme that tightly couples kinetic turbulence codes across a spatial interface is introduced. This scheme evolves from considerations of competing strategies and down-selection. It is found that the use of a composite kinetic…
For the simulation of disruptions in tokamak fusion plasmas, a fluid model describing the evolution of relativistic runaway electrons and their interaction with the background plasma is presented. The overall aim of the model is to…
The purpose of this work is simulation of magnetised plasmas in the ITER project framework. In this context, kinetic Vlasov-Poisson like models are used to simulate core turbulence in the tokamak in a toroidal geometry. This leads to heavy…
Trapped Rydberg ions represent a flexible platform for quantum simulation and information processing which combines a high degree of control over electronic and vibrational degrees of freedom. The possibility to individually excite ions to…