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Achieving large-scale kinetic modelling is a crucial task for the development and optimization of modern plasma devices. With the trend of decreasing pressure in applications such as plasma etching, kinetic simulations are necessary to…

Particle-in-cell codes are the most widely used simulation tools for kinetic studies of ultra-intense laser-plasma interactions. Using the motion of a single electron in a plane electromagnetic wave as a benchmark problem, we show…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Kavin Tangtartharakul , Guangye Chen , Alexey Arefiev

Particle methods are a ubiquitous tool for solving the Vlasov-Poisson equation in comoving coordinates, which is used to model the gravitational evolution of dark matter in an expanding universe. However, these methods are known to produce…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-12 Andrew Myers , Phillip Colella , Brian Van Straalen

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

We explore the possibilities of applying structure-preserving numerical methods to a plasma hybrid model with kinetic ions and mass-less fluid electrons satisfying the quasi-neutrality relation. The numerical schemes are derived by finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Yingzhe Li , Martin Campos Pinto , Florian Holderied , Stefan Possanner , Eric Sonnendrücker

Particle-in-cell merging algorithms aim to resample dynamically the six-dimensional phase space occupied by particles without distorting substantially the physical description of the system. Whereas various approaches have been proposed in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-11-16 Marija Vranic , Thomas Grismayer , Joana L. Martins , Ricardo A. Fonseca , Luis O. Silva

Matter-RADiation interaction SIMulation (MRADSIM) is an innovative modular software toolkit developed to simulate the effects of radiation on electronic components, human beings and various materials. It incorporates innovative features…

Our predictions for particle physics processes are realized in a chain of complex simulators. They allow us to generate high-fidelity simulated data, but they are not well-suited for inference on the theory parameters with observed data. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-03 Johann Brehmer , Kyle Cranmer

We present HSIM: a dedicated pipeline for simulating observations with the HARMONI integral field spectrograph on the European Extremely Large Telescope. HSIM takes high spectral and spatial resolution input data-cubes, encoding physical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 S. Zieleniewski , N. Thatte , S. Kendrew , R. C. W. Houghton , A. M. Swinbank , M. Tecza , F. Clarke , T. Fusco

Particle-in-cell (PIC) plasma simulations are a productive and valued tool for the study of nonlinear plasma phenomena, yet there are basic questions about the simulation methods themselves that remain unanswered. Here we study one such…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 J. U. Brackbill

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

Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations are fundamental to plasma physics but often suffer from limited scalability due to particle-grid interaction bottlenecks and particle redistribution costs. Specifically, the particle-grid interaction…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Yizhuo Rao , Xingjian Cui , Shangzhi Pang , Jiabin Xie , Guangnan Feng , Jinhui Wei , Ziyan Zhang , Languang Gao , Zhenyu Wang , Zhiguang Chen , Yutong Lu

The Transfer Matrix Method (TMM) has become a prominent tool for the optical simulation of thin$-$film solar cells, particularly among researchers specializing in organic semiconductors and perovskite materials. As the commercial viability…

Cosmic-ray acceleration processes in astrophysical plasmas are often investigated with fully-kinetic or hybrid kinetic numerical simulations, which enable us to describe a detailed microphysics of particle energization mechanisms. Tracing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-12 Gabriel Torralba Paz , Artem Bohdan , Jacek Niemiec

Recent increases in supercomputing power, driven by the multi-core revolution and accelerators such as the IBM Cell processor, graphics processing units (GPUs) and Intel's Many Integrated Core (MIC) technology have enabled kinetic…

Our fully kinetic, implicit Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations of global magnetospheres on up to 32,768 of El Capitan's AMD Instinct MI300A Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) represent an unprecedented computational capability that…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Stefano Markidis , Andong Hu , Ivy Peng , Luca Pennati , Ian Lumsden , Dewi Yokelson , Stephanie Brink , Olga Pearce , Thomas R. W. Scogland , Bronis R. de Supinski , Gian Luca Delzanno , Michela Taufer

Singularities in multi-stream flows of relativistic plasmas can efficiently produce coherent high-frequency radiation, as exemplified in the concepts of Relativistic Flying Mirror [S. V. Bulanov, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 085001 (2003)]…

We introduce GausSim, a novel neural network-based simulator designed to capture the dynamic behaviors of real-world elastic objects represented through Gaussian kernels. We leverage continuum mechanics and treat each kernel as a Center of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yidi Shao , Mu Huang , Chen Change Loy , Bo Dai

We introduce an extension of the particle-in-cell (PIC) method that captures the Landau collisional effects in the Vlasov-Maxwell-Landau equations. The method arises from a regularisation of the variational formulation of the Landau…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 Rafael Bailo , José A. Carrillo , Jingwei Hu

Silicon Dangling Bonds have established themselves as a promising competitor in the field of beyond-CMOS technologies. Their integration density and potential for energy dissipation advantages of several orders of magnitude over…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 Jan Drewniok , Marcel Walter , Samuel Sze Hang Ng , Konrad Walus , Robert Wille