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A general derivation is proposed for several boundary conditions arisen in the lattice Boltzmann simulations of various physical problems. Pair-wise moment conservations are proposed to enforce the boundary conditions with given macroscopic…

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Models of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equilibia that for computational convenience assume the existence of a system of nested magnetic flux surfaces tend to exhibit singular current sheets. These sheets are located on resonant flux surfaces…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Eugenia Kim , Geoffrey McFadden , Antoine Cerfon

The nonequilibrium dynamic phase transition, in the two dimensional kinetic Ising model in presence of a randomly varying (in time but uniform in space) magnetic field, has been studied both by Monte Carlo simulation and by solving the mean…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Muktish Acharyya

On the micro- and nanoscale, classical hydrodynamic boundary conditions such as the no-slip condition no longer apply. Instead, the flow profiles exhibit ``slip`` at the surface, which is characterized by a finite slip length (partial…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jens Smiatek , Michael P. Allen , Friederike Schmid

We have established the relations between the baryon-baryon scattering phase shifts and the two-particle energy spectrum in the elongated box. We have studied the cases with both the periodic boundary condition and twisted boundary…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-21 Ning Li , Ya-Jie Wu , Zhan-Wei Liu

Local gyrokinetic simulations use a field-aligned domain that twists due to the magnetic shear of the background magnetic equilibrium. However, if the magnetic shear is strong and/or the domain is long, the twist can become so extreme that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-05-07 Justin Ball , Stephan Brunner

In magnetically confined fusion plasmas, the role played by zonal E$\times$B flow shear layers in the suppression of turbulent transport is relatively well-understood. However, less is understood about the role played by the weak shear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Norman M. Cao , Hongxuan Zhu , Gabriel C. Grime , Timothy Stoltzfus-Dueck

This paper presents a consistent approach to prescribe traction boundary conditions in atomistic models. Due to the typical multiple-neighbor interactions, finding an appropriate boundary condition that models a desired traction is a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Xiantao Li , Jianfeng Lu

We present an extended investigation of a recently introduced model of gravitationally confined, collisionless plasma (Barbieri et al. 2024a), which showed that rapid temperature fluctuations at the base of the plasma, occurring on…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Luca Barbieri , Simone Landi , Lapo Casetti , Andrea Verdini

This paper introduces a novel dynamical pressure boundary condition for weakly-compressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics (WCSPH). Unlike previous methods that rely on indirect approaches or ghost particles, our method integrates the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-05 Shuoguo Zhang , Yu Fan , Dong Wu , Chi Zhang , Xiangyu Hu

The properties of the boundary plasma in a tokamak are now recognized to play a key role in determining the achievable fusion power and the lifetimes of plasma-facing components. Accurate quantitative modeling and improved qualitative…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-08-25 E. L. Shi

We demonstrate a novel setup for hybrid particle-in-cell simulations designed to isolate the physics of the shock precursor over long time periods for significantly lower computational cost than previous methods. This is achieved using a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-22 Emily R. Simon , Damiano Caprioli , Colby C. Haggerty , Brian Reville

Periodic boundary conditions have not a unique implementation in magnetic systems where all spins interact with each other through a power law decaying interaction of the form $1/r^\alpha$, $r$ being the distance between spins. In this work…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sergio A. Cannas , Cintia M. Lapilli , Daniel A. Stariolo

Predicting the final state of turbulent plasma relaxation is an important challenge, both in astrophysical plasmas such as the Sun's corona and in controlled thermonuclear fusion. Recent numerical simulations of plasma relaxation with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-11 A. R. Yeates , A. J. B. Russell , G. Hornig

The totally asymmetric simple exclusion process with generalized update is a version of the discrete time totally asymmetric exclusion process with an additional inter-particle interaction that controls the degree of particle clustering.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-21 Nadezhda Zh Bunzarova , Nina C Pesheva , Alexander M Povolotsky

A robust method to handle vacuum and near vacuum regions in hybrid simulations for space and astrophysical plasmas is presented. The conventional hybrid simulation model dealing with kinetic ions and a massless charge-neutralizing electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Takanobu Amano , Katsuaki Higashimori , Keisuke Shirakawa

We investigate the drift wave -- zonal flow dynamics in a shearless slab geometry with the new flux-balanced Hasegawa-Wakatani model. As in previous Hasegawa-Wakatani models, we observe a sharp transition from a turbulence dominated regime…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Di Qi , Andrew J. Majda , Antoine J. Cerfon

Periodic boundary conditions (PBCs) for computing magnetic fields in repeating magnetic structures, e.g. in micromagnetic simulations, are typically imposed using the quasi periodic macrogeometry approach, where many copies of the simulated…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-13 Frederik Laust Durhuus , Andrea Roberto Insinga , Rasmus Bjørk

We provide appropriate tools for the analysis of dynamics and chaos for one-dimensional systems with periodic boundary conditions. Our approach allows for the investigation of the dependence of the largest Lyapunov exponent on various…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-22 Pankaj Kumar , Bruce N. Miller

Implementation of an outlet boundary condition is challenging in the context of the weakly-compressible Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics method. We perform a systematic numerical study of several of the available techniques for the outlet…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-02 Pawan Negi , Prabhu Ramachandran , Asmelash Haftu