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The Particle-In-Cell (PIC) method is a computational technique widely used in plasma physics to model plasmas at the kinetic level. In this work, we present our effort to prepare the semi-implicit energy-conserving PIC code ECsim for…

Understanding the coupled thermo-mechanical behaviour of compacted granular beds can benefit various industrial applications, such as pebble bed design in fusion reactors. In this study, a thermo-mechanical discrete element method based on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-02 Si Suo , Marigrazia Moscardini , Verena Becker , Yixiang Gan , Marc Kamlah

We demonstrate how an iterative method for potential inversion from distribution functions developed for simple liquid systems can be generalized to polymer systems. It uses the differences in the potentials of mean force between the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Dirk Reith , Mathias Puetz , Florian Mueller-Plathe

Particle-In-Cell codes are widely used for plasma physics simulations. It is often the case that particles within a computational cell need to be split to improve the statistics or, in the case of non-uniform meshes, to avoid the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-04-22 Roch Smets , Nicolas Aunais , ANdrea Ciardi , Matthieu Drouin , Martin Campos-Pino , Philip Deegan

Particle-in-Cell (PIC) Monte Carlo (MC) simulations are central to plasma physics but face increasing challenges on heterogeneous HPC systems due to excessive data movement, synchronization overheads, and inefficient utilization of multiple…

We propose a new approach allowing visio-haptic interaction with a FE model of a human liver having both non-linear geometric and material properties. The material properties used in the model are extracted from the experimental data of pig…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Igor Peterlik , Mert Sedef , Cagatay Basdogan , Ludek Matyska

We present a collision model for particle-particle and particle-wall interactions in interface-resolved simulations of particle-laden flows. Three types of inter-particle interactions are taken into account: (1) long- and (2) short-range…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-23 Pedro Costa , Bendiks Jan Boersma , Jerry Westerweel , Wim-Paul Breugem

We propose a sparse grids based adaptive noise reduction strategy for electrostatic particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. Our approach is based on the key idea of relying on sparse grids instead of a regular grid in order to increase the…

We formulate theoretical modeling approaches and develop practical computational simulation methods for investigating the non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of fluid interfaces with passive and active immersed particles. Our approaches…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-03 Dev Jasuja , Paul J. Atzberger

Probabilistic integral circuits (PICs) have been recently introduced as probabilistic models enjoying the key ingredient behind expressive generative models: continuous latent variables (LVs). PICs are symbolic computational graphs defining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Gennaro Gala , Cassio de Campos , Antonio Vergari , Erik Quaeghebeur

We present a hybrid quantum-classical electrostatic Particle-in-Cell (PIC) method, where the electrostatic field Poisson solver is implemented on a quantum computer simulator using a hybrid classical-quantum Neural Network (HNN) using…

The associative interaction, such as hydrogen bonding, can bring about versatile functionalities to polymer systems, which has been investigated by tremendous researches, but the fundamental understanding on association process is still…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-20 Xiangyu Zhang , Dong Meng

While the particle-in-cell (PIC) method is quite mature, verification and validation of both newly developed methods and individual codes has largely focused on an idiosyncratic choice of a few test cases. Many of these test cases involve…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 S. O'Connor , Z. D. Crawford , J. Verboncoeur , J. Lugisland , B. Shanker

The Energy Conserving semi-implicit method (ECsim), presented by Lapenta in 2017, is a Particle in Cell (PIC) algorithm for the simulation of plasmas. Energy conservation is achieved within a semi-implicit formulation that does not require…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-01-24 Giovanni Lapenta

Applying gyrokinetic simulations for theoretical turbulence and transport studies to the plasma edge and scrape-off layer (SOL) presents significant challenges. To in particular account for steep density and temperature gradients in the…

We introduce and explore an approach for constructing force fields for small molecules, which combines intuitive low body order empirical force field terms with the concepts of data driven statistical fits of recent machine learned…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-10-26 Alice Allen , Gábor Csányi , Geneviève Dusson , Christoph Ortner

Optimizing iPIC3D, an implicit Particle-in-Cell (PIC) code, for large-scale 3D plasma simulations is crucial for space and astrophysical applications. This work focuses on characterizing iPIC3D's communication efficiency through strategic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Jeremy J. Williams , Daniel Medeiros , Ivy B. Peng , Stefano Markidis

Furthering our understanding of many of today's interesting problems in plasma physics---including plasma based acceleration and magnetic reconnection with pair production due to quantum electrodynamic effects---requires large-scale kinetic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Kyle G. Miller , Roman P. Lee , Adam Tableman , Anton Helm , Ricardo A. Fonseca , Viktor K. Decyk , Warren B. Mori

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…

This paper presents a novel 3-D full electromagnetic particle-in-cell (PIC) code called JefiPIC, which uses Jefimenko's equations as the electromagnetic (EM) field solver through a full-space integration method. Leveraging the power of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Jiannan Chen , Jun-Jie Zhang , Xueming Li , Hai-Liang Qiao , Yongtao Zhao