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On the smallest scales, three-dimensional large-scale structure surveys contain a wealth of cosmological information which cannot be trivially extracted due to the non-linear dynamical evolution of the density field. Lagrangian perturbation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-05 Florent Leclercq , Jens Jasche , Héctor Gil-Marín , Benjamin Wandelt

An intense X wave propagating perpendicularly to dc magnetic field is unstable with respect to a parametric decay into an electron Bernstein wave and a lower-hybrid wave. A modified theory of this effect is proposed that extends to the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 I. Y. Dodin , A. V. Arefiev

We develop a spectral element lattice Boltzmann method (SELBM) with the flux bounce-back (FBB) scheme, to enable accurate simulations of single-phase fluid dynamics in unstructured mesh. We adopt an Eulerian description of the streaming…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-09 Chunheng Zhao , Saumil Patel , Hai Lu Lin , Misun Min , Taehun Lee

The advantage of particle Lagrangian methods in computational fluid dynamics is that advection is accurately modeled. However, this complicates the calculation of space derivatives. If a mesh is employed, it must be updated at each time…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-01-27 Daniel Duque , Pep Español

The paper presents a 1D2V electrostatic PIC model with a drift-kinetic description of all particle types aiming at simulating classical longitudinal plasma transport in axially symmetric open traps. The model generalizes the semi-implicit…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 V. V. Glinskiy , I. V. Timofeev , V. V. Prikhodko

Eulerian-Lagrangian models of particle-laden (multiphase) flows describe fluid flow and particle dynamics in the Eulerian and Lagrangian frameworks respectively. Regardless of whether the flow is turbulent or laminar, the particle dynamics…

We investigate the formation of multiple images as the radio signals from fast radio bursts (FRBs) pass through the plane of a plasma clump. The exponential model for the plasma clump is adopted to analyze the properties of the multiple…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-28 Y-B. Wang , Z-G. Wen , R. Yuen , N. Wang , J-P. Yuan , X. Zhou

The simulation of thermochemical nonequilibrium for the atomic and molecular energy level populations in plasma flows requires a comprehensive modeling of all the elementary collisional and radiative processes involved. Coupling detailed…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Stefano Boccelli , Federico Bariselli , Bruno Dias , Thierry E. Magin

The scattered field formalism is combined to the particle-in-cell method to model relativistic laser-plasma dynamics in complex field configurations. Despite the strong nonlinearity of the interactions, we demonstrate the validity of this…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-18 M. Lytova , F. Fillion-Gourdeau , S. Vallières , F. Légaré , S. MacLean

Room-temperature metals and semi-metals which consist of a gas of bound electrons in a near-continuum band structure can be classified as cold quantum plasmas. This insight suggests that Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations, traditionally…

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Fourier ptychographic microscopy (FPM) is a recently proposed quantitative phase imaging technique with high resolution and wide field-of-view (FOV). In current FPM imaging platforms, systematic error sources come from the aberrations, LED…

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A two-dimensional particle-in-cell code for simulation of low-frequency electromagnetic processes in laboratory plasmas has been developed. The code uses the Darwin method omitting the electromagnetic wave propagation. The Darwin method…

We study an inverse problem for Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy (LSFM), where the density of fluorescent molecules needs to be reconstructed. Our first step is to present a mathematical model to describe the measurements obtained by an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Evelyn Cueva , Matias Courdurier , Axel Osses , Victor Castañeda , Benjamin Palacios , Steffen Härtel

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

Particle smoothing enables state estimation in nonlinear and non-Gaussian state-space models, but its practical use is often limited by high computational cost. Backward smoothing methods such as the Forward Filter Backward Smoother (FFBS)…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-17 Genshiro Kitagawa

In this paper, we establish a set of criteria which are applied to discuss various formulations under which Lagrangian stochastic models can be found. These models are used for the simulation of fluid particles in single-phase turbulence as…

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Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulation is the most important numerical tool in plasma physics. However, its long-term accuracy has not been established. To overcome this difficulty, we developed a canonical symplectic PIC method for the…

The predictive simulation of fluid dynamics in densely packed microfluidic devices, such as Deterministic Lateral Displacement (DLD) arrays, stagnates with standard iterative solvers. We show that this failure is not algorithmic but rooted…

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