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A new method that solves concurrently the multi-fluid and Maxwell's equations has been developed for plasma simulations. By calculating the stress tensor in the multi-fluid momentum equation by means of computational particles moving in a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Stefano Markidis , Pierre Henri , Giovanni Lapenta , Kjell Ronnmark , Maria Hamrin , Zakaria Meliani , Erwin Laure

Particle smoothers are widely used algorithms allowing to approximate the smoothing distribution in hidden Markov models. Existing algorithms often suffer from slow computational time or degeneracy. We propose in this paper a way to improve…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-07-28 Cyrille Dubarry , Randal Douc

Optimizing iPIC3D, an implicit Particle-in-Cell (PIC) code, for large-scale 3D plasma simulations is crucial for space and astrophysical applications. This work focuses on characterizing iPIC3D's communication efficiency through strategic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Jeremy J. Williams , Daniel Medeiros , Ivy B. Peng , Stefano Markidis

This paper discusses temporally continuous and discrete forms of the speed-limited particle-in-cell (SLPIC) method first treated by Werner et al. [Phys. Plasmas 25, 123512 (2018)]. The dispersion relation for a 1D1V electrostatic plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-08-31 Thomas G. Jenkins , Gregory R. Werner , John R. Cary

The development of ultra-intense laser-based sources of high energy ions is an important goal, with a variety of potential applications. One of the barriers to achieving this goal is the need to maximize the conversion efficiency from laser…

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.…

In a uniform radio-frequency (RF) plasma between a large electrode pair, the addition of an axial magnetic field induces diverse longitudinal filaments. To reveal its pattern dynamics, we conduct two-dimensional (2D) Particle-In-Cell (PIC)…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Huidong Huang , Jian Chen , Zhibin Wang

VPIC is a general purpose Particle-in-Cell simulation code for modeling plasma phenomena such as magnetic reconnection, fusion, solar weather, and laser-plasma interaction in three dimensions using large numbers of particles. VPIC's…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Robert Bird , Nigel Tan , Scott V. Luedtke , Stephen Lien Harrell , Michela Taufer , Brian Albright

We treat the accurate simulation of the calcination reaction in particles, where the particles are large and, thus, the inner-particle processes must be resolved. Because these processes need to be described with coupled partial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-28 Lucas Reineking , Torben Bergold , Enric Illana , Viktor Scherer , Martin Mönnigmann

We develop a multiscale hybrid scheme for simulations of soft condensed matter systems, which allows one to treat the system at the particle level in selected regions of space, and at the continuum level elsewhere. It is derived…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-17 Shuanhu Qi , Hans Behringer , Friederike Schmid

We present a new approach to automatic amortized inference in universal probabilistic programs which improves performance compared to current methods. Our approach is a variation of inference compilation (IC) which leverages deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 William Harvey , Andreas Munk , Atılım Güneş Baydin , Alexander Bergholm , Frank Wood

Numerical simulations of plasma flows are crucial for advancing our understanding of microscopic processes that drive the global plasma dynamics in fusion devices, space, and astrophysical systems. Identifying and classifying particle…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-13 Stefano Markidis , Ivy Peng , Artur Podobas , Itthinat Jongsuebchoke , Gabriel Bengtsson , Pawel Herman

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

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

Basic principles of particle-in-cell (PIC ) codes with the main application for plasma-based acceleration are discussed. The ab initio full electromagnetic relativistic PIC codes provide the most reliable description of plasmas. Their…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-10-06 Alexander Pukhov

Simulating the dynamics of ions near polarizable nanoparticles (NPs) using coarse-grained models is extremely challenging due to the need to solve the Poisson equation at every simulation timestep. Recently, a molecular dynamics (MD) method…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-01 JCS Kadupitiya , Geoffrey C. Fox , Vikram Jadhao

Particle-in-cell simulations are among the most essential tools for the modeling and optimization of laser-plasma accelerators, since they reproduce the physics from first principles. However, the high computational cost associated with…

Plasma wakefield acceleration is a groundbreaking technique for accelerating particles, capable of sustaining gigavolt-per-meter accelerating fields. Understanding the physical mechanisms governing the recovery of plasma accelerating…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 G. Parise , A. Cianchi , M. Galletti , F. Guglietta , R. Pompili , A. R. Rossi , M. Sbragaglia , D. Simeoni

In this study, a novel method for simulating plasma dynamics using parallel programming has been developed. The equations based on Particle-in-Cell (PIC) method were utilized and adapted for this purpose. We utilized 35 processors from…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Hadi Barati , Ali Torkaman , Mehdi Fardmanesh

We present a new multi-fluid, multi-temperature plasma solver with adaptive Cartesian mesh (ACM) based on a full-Newton (non-linear, implicit) scheme for collisional low-temperature plasma. The particle transport is described using the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Robert Arslanbekov , Vladimir Kolobov