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A novel adaptive technique for electromagnetic Particle In Cell (PIC) plasma simulations is presented here. Two main issues are identified in designing adaptive techniques for PIC simulation: first, the choice of the size of the particle…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 M. E. Innocenti , G. Lapenta , S. Markidis , A. Beck , A. Vapirev

In this dissertation, a fully object-oriented, fully relativistic, multi-dimensional Particle-In-Cell code was developed and applied to answer key questions in plasma-based accelerator research. The simulations increase the understanding of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-03-03 Roy G. Hemker

Particle-In-Cell (PIC) codes are broadly applied to the kinetic simulation of plasmas, from laser-matter interaction to astrophysics. Their heavy simulation cost can be mitigated by using the Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD)…

Electromagnetic particle-in-cell (PIC) codes are widely used to perform computer simulations of a variety of physical systems, including fusion plasmas, astrophysical plasmas, plasma wakefield particle accelerators, and secondary photon…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Edoardo Zoni , Remi Lehe , Olga Shapoval , Daniel Belkin , Neil Zaïm , Luca Fedeli , Henri Vincenti , Jean-Luc Vay

The most popular methods for self-consistent simulation of fields interacting with charged species is using finite difference time domain (FDTD) methods together with Newton's laws of motion to evolve locations and velocities of particles.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-04-29 Zane D. Crawford , O. H. Ramachandran , Scott O'Connor , Daniel L. Dault , John Luginsland , B. Shanker

Global particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of pulsar magnetospheres are performed with a volume, surface and pair production-based plasma injection schemes to systematically investigate the transition between electrosphere and force-free…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-16 Fábio Cruz , Thomas Grismayer , Alexander Y. Chen , Anatoly Spitkovsky , Ricardo A. Fonseca , Luis O. Silva

The Gyrokinetic Toroidal Code at Princeton (GTC-P) is a highly scalable and portable particle-in-cell (PIC) code. It solves the 5D Vlasov-Poisson equation featuring efficient utilization of modern parallel computer architectures at the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Bei Wang , Stephane Ethier , William Tang , Khaled Ibrahim , Kamesh Madduri , Samuel Williams , Leonid Oliker

A lot of plasma physics problems are not amenable to exact solutions due to many reasons. It is worth mentioning among them, for example, nonlinearity of the motion equations, variable coefficients or non lineal conditions on known or…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-11 Alex Estupiñán , E. A. Orozco , V. D. Dugar-Zhabon , M. T. Murillo Acevedo

Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulation codes have wide applicability to first-principles modeling of multidimensional nonlinear plasma phenomena, including wake-field accelerators. This review addresses both finite difference and pseudo-spectral…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-08-07 Brendan B. Godfrey

In this paper, we introduce and discuss an exactly energy-conserving Particle-in-Cell method for arbitrary curvilinear coordinates. The flexibility provided by curvilinear coordinates enables the study of plasmas in complex-shaped domains…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-30 Joost Croonen , Luca Pezzini , Fabio Bacchini , Giovanni Lapenta

There are many interesting physical processes which involve the generation of high density plasmas in large volumes. However, when modeling these systems numerically, the large densities and volumes present a significant computational…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. E. Schulz , A. D. Greenwood , K. L. Cartwright , P. J. Mardahl

A new approach to the kinetic simulation of plasmas in complex geometries, based on the Particle-in- Cell (PIC) simulation method, is explored. In the two dimensional (2d) electrostatic version of our method, called the Arbitrary…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 C. A. Fichtl , J. M. Finn , K. L. Cartwright

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

Recently a number of theoretical studies of the uniform electron gas (UEG) at finite temperature have appeared that are of relevance for dense plasmas, warm dense matter and laser excited solids and thermodynamic density functional theory…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-06 T. Schoof , S. Groth , M. Bonitz

We present a data-driven reduced-order modeling of the space-charge dynamics for electromagnetic particle-in-cell (EMPIC) plasma simulations based on dynamic mode decomposition (DMD). The dynamics of the charged particles in kinetic plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Indranil Nayak , Fernando L. Teixeira , Dong-Yeop Na , Mrinal Kumar , Yuri A. Omelchenko

JAX-in-Cell is a fully electromagnetic, multispecies, and relativistic 1D3V Particle-in-Cell (PIC) framework implemented entirely in JAX. It provides a modern, Python-based alternative to traditional PIC frameworks. It leverages…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Longyu Ma , Rogerio Jorge , Hongke Lu , Aaron Tran , Christopher Woolford

The particle-in-cell (PIC) method is successfully used to study magnetized plasmas. However, this requires large computational costs and limits simulations to short physical run-times and often to setups in less than three spatial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-24 Rouven Lemmerz , Mohamad Shalaby , Timon Thomas , Christoph Pfrommer

Recently, a fully implicit, energy- and charge-conserving particle-in-cell method has been proposed for multi-scale, full-f kinetic simulations [G. Chen, et al., J. Comput. Phys. 230,18 (2011)]. The method employs a Jacobian-free…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Guangye Chen , Luis Chacón , Daniel C. Barnes

Direct studies of intense laser-solid interactions is still of great challenges, because of the many coupled physical mechanisms, such as direct laser heating, ionization dynamics, collision among charged particles, and electrostatic or…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-03-16 D. Wu , X. T. He , W. Yu , S. Fritzsche

Modeling of kinetic plasmas using electromagnetic particle in cell methods (EM-PIC) is a problem that is well worn, in that methods developed have been used extensively both understanding physics and exploiting them for device design.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Zane D. Crawford , Scott O'Connor , John Luginsland , B. Shanker