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We present the formulation, algorithm and numerical tests of the magnetohydrodynamic-particle-in-cell (MHD-PIC) method with particles treated under the guiding center approximation, which we term the MHD-gPIC method, and it is implemented…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-20 Zitao Hu , Xue-Ning Bai , Xiaochen Sun

We formulate a magnetohydrodynamic-particle-in-cell (MHD-PIC) method for describing the interaction between collisionless cosmic ray (CR) particles and a thermal plasma. The thermal plasma is treated as a fluid, obeying equations of ideal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-19 Xue-Ning Bai , Damiano Caprioli , Lorenzo Sironi , Anatoly Spitkovsky

We describe the algorithm, implementation and numerical tests of a multifluid dust module in the Athena++ magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code. The module can accommodate an arbitrary number of dust species interacting with the gas via…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Pinghui Huang , Xue-Ning Bai

Space plasma simulations have seen an increase in the use of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) with embedded Particle-in-Cell (PIC) models. This combined MHD-EPIC algorithm simulates some regions of interest using the kinetic PIC method while…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Yinsi Shou , Valeriy Tenishev , Yuxi Chen , Gabor Toth , Natalia Ganushkina

The Athena MHD code has been extended to integrates the motion of particles coupled with the gas via aerodynamic drag, in order to study the dynamics of gas and solids in protoplanetary disks and the formation of planetesimals. Our…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Xue-Ning Bai , James M. Stone

We describe an implementation of a particle physics module available for the PLUTO code, appropriate for the dynamical evolution of a plasma consisting of a thermal fluid and a non-thermal component represented by relativistic charged…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-23 A. Mignone , G. Bodo , B. Vaidya , G. Mattia

A new code for astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is described. The code has been designed to be easily extensible for use with static and adaptive mesh refinement. It combines higher-order Godunov methods with the constrained…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 James M. Stone , Thomas A. Gardiner , Peter Teuben , John F. Hawley , Jacob B. Simon

We extend the general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) capabilities of Athena++ to incorporate radiation. The intensity field in each finite-volume cell is discretized in angle, with explicit transport in both space and angle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 Christopher J. White , Patrick D. Mullen , Yan-Fei Jiang , Shane W. Davis , James M. Stone , Viktoriya Morozova , Lizhong Zhang

Modeling multi-scale collisionless magnetized processes constitutes an important numerical challenge. By treating electrons as a fluid and ions kinetically, the so-called hybrid Particle-In-Cell (PIC) codes represent a promising…

The design and implementation of a new framework for adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) calculations is described. It is intended primarily for applications in astrophysical fluid dynamics, but its flexible and modular design enables its use…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 James M. Stone , Kengo Tomida , Christopher J. White , Kyle G. Felker

We present a self-contained overview of GR-Athena++, a general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) code, that incorporates treatment of dynamical space-time, based on the recent work of (Daszuta+, 2021)[49] and (Cook+, 2023)[45].…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-10 Boris Daszuta , William Cook

A method for implementing cylindrical coordinates in the Athena magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) code is described. The extension follows the approach of Athena's original developers and has been designed to alter the existing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Aaron Skinner , Eve Ostriker

We present a new general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) code integrated into the Athena++ framework. Improving upon the techniques used in most GRMHD codes, ours allows the use of advanced, less diffusive Riemann solvers, in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 Christopher J. White , James M. Stone , Charles F. Gammie

The hybrid method combining particle-in-cell and magnetohydrodynamics can be used to study the interaction between energetic particles and global plasma modes. In this paper we introduce the M3D-C1-K code, which is developed based on the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Chang Liu , Stephen C. Jardin , Hong Qin , Jianyuan Xiao , Nathaniel M. Ferraro , Joshua Breslau

We present the extension of the differentiable hydrodynamics code, diffhydro, enabling scalable PDE-constrained inference and integrated hybrid physics-ML models for a wide range of astrophysical applications. New physics additions include…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Benjamin Horowitz , Zarija Lukić , Kentaro Nagamine , Yuri Oku

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

We describe the implementation of a module for the Athena magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) code which solves the time-independent, multi-frequency radiative transfer (RT) equation on multidimensional Cartesian simulation domains, including…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Shane W. Davis , James M. Stone , Yan-Fei Jiang

We describe Pegasus, a new hybrid-kinetic particle-in-cell code tailored for the study of astrophysical plasma dynamics. The code incorporates an energy-conserving particle integrator into a stable, second-order--accurate, three-stage…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Matthew W. Kunz , James M. Stone , Xue-Ning Bai

We describe the implementation of sophisticated numerical techniques for general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics simulations in the Athena++ code framework. Improvements over many existing codes include the use of advanced Riemann solvers…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-25 Christopher J. White

We describe the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) code CRONOS, which has been used in astrophysics and space physics studies in recent years. CRONOS has been designed to be easily adaptable to the problem at hand, where the user can expand or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 R. Kissmann , J. Kleimann , B. L. Krebl , T. Wiengarten
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