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With the great development of parallel computing techniques, the particle-particle (PP) model has been successfully applied in a number of plasma applications. Comparing to particle-mesh (PM) models, for example the widely used…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Yanan Zhang , Xiaochun Ma , Hui Liu , Yinjian Zhao

The Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulation has been a widely used method for studying plasma physics. However, fully three-dimensional PIC simulations always require huge computational resources. For problems with near azimuthal symmetry, recent…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-09 Jianzhao Wang , Weiming An , Rong Tang , Weiyu Meng , Jiayong Zhong

The recently developed energy conserving semi-implicit method (ECsim) for PIC simulation is applied to multiple scale problems where the electron-scale physics needs to be only partially retained and the interest is on the macroscopic or…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Giovanni Lapenta , Diego Gonzalez-Herrero , Elisabetta Boella

We design and develop a new Particle-in-Cell (PIC) method for plasma simulations using Deep-Learning (DL) to calculate the electric field from the electron phase space. We train a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) and a Convolutional Neural…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Xavier Aguilar , Stefano Markidis

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

A simulation package employing a Particle in Cell (PIC) method is developed to study the high current beam transport and the dynamics of plasmas. This package includes subroutines those are suited for various planned projects at University…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-06-21 N. Joshi

Particle-in-cell methods couple mesh-based methods for the solution of continuum mechanics problems, with the ability to advect and evolve particles. They have a long history and many applications in scientific computing. However, they have…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-12 R. Gassmoeller , E. Heien , E. G. Puckett , W. Bangerth

Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations spend most of their execution time on particle--grid interactions, where fine-grained atomic updates become a major bottleneck on traditional many-core CPUs. Recent CPU architectures integrate specialized…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Yizhuo Rao , Xingjian Cui , Jiabin Xie , Shangzhi Pang , Guangnan Feng , Jinhui Wei , Zhiguang Chen , Yutong Lu

This paper explores the time-domain equations of noble metals, in which Drude model is adopted to describe the dielectric constant, to implement three-dimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations for the surface plasmon excitation with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 La-Qun Liu , Gui-Lian Zhao , Hui-Hui Wang , Da-Gang Liu

Hybrid-VPIC is an extension of the open-source high-performance particle-in-cell (PIC) code VPIC incorporating hybrid kinetic ion/fluid electron solvers. This paper describes the models that are available in the code and gives an overview…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Ari Le , Adam Stanier , Lin Yin , Blake Wetherton , Brett Keenan , Brian Albright

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

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 process of numerical thermalization in particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations has been studied extensively. It is analogous to Coulomb collisions in real plasmas, causing particle velocity distributions (VDFs) to evolve towards a Maxwellian…

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

Large-scale simulations of plasmas are essential for advancing our understanding of fusion devices, space, and astrophysical systems. Particle-in-Cell (PIC) codes have demonstrated their success in simulating numerous plasma phenomena on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Steven W. D. Chien , Jonas Nylund , Gabriel Bengtsson , Ivy B. Peng , Artur Podobas , Stefano Markidis

Particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations are essential for studying kinetic plasma processes, but they often suffer from statistical noise, especially in plasmas with fast flows. We have also found that the typical central difference scheme used…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Yuxi Chen , Hongyang Zhou , Gabor Toth

An efficient and momentum conserving algorithm for enforcing contact between solid bodies is proposed. Previous advances in the material point method (MPM) led to a fast and simple, but potentially momentum violating, strategy for enforcing…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Michael Tupek , Jacob Koester , Matthew Mosby

This paper presents a recently developed particle simulation code package PIFE-PIC, which is a novel three-dimensional (3-D) Parallel Immersed-Finite-Element (IFE) Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulation model for particle simulations of…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Daoru Han , Xiaoming He , David Lund , Xu Zhang

Author developed the parallel fully kinetic particle-in-cell (PIC) code JPIC based on updated and advanced algorithms (e.g. numerical-dispersion-free electromagnetic field solver) for simulating laser plasma interactions. Basic technical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-04-19 Hui-Chun Wu

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