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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…

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A comprehensive gyrokinetic simulation model has been implemented in the global toroidal gyrokinetic code (GTC) and verified for studying low-frequency waves and turbulence in magnetic fusion plasmas by treating all kinetic-MHD processes on…

We present a new method for computing the Near-To-Far-Field (NTFF) transformation in FDTD simulations which has an overall scaling of $O(N^3)$ instead of the standard $O(N^4)$. By mapping the far field with a cartesian coordinate system the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-11-05 Travis Garrett

Using cosmological MHD simulations of the magnetic field in galaxy clusters and filaments we evaluate the possibility to infer the magnetic field strength in filaments by measuring cross-correlation functions between Faraday Rotation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 F. Stasyszyn , S. E. Nuza , K. Dolag , R. Beck , J. Donnert

The magnetic compression has long been proposed a promising method for the plasma heating in a field reversed configuration (FRC), however, it remains a challenge to fully understand the physical mechanisms underlying the compression…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-03-22 Yiming Ma , Ping Zhu , Bo Rao , Haolong Li

The reduction of magnetic forces on electromagnetic coils is an important consideration in the design of high-field devices such as the stellarator or tokamak. Unfortunately, these forces may be too time-consuming to evaluate by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-10-15 Siena Hurwitz , Matt Landreman , Alan Kaptanoglu

Numerical tests of volume formulae are presented to compute efficiently the volume enclosed between flux surfaces for integrable 3D vector fields with various degrees of symmetry. In the process, a new case is proposed and tested.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-11-26 David Martinez-del-Rio , Robert S. MacKay

We present results of 3D numerical simulations of magnetically confined, radiatively driven stellar winds of massive stars, conducted using the astrophysical MHD code Pluto, with a focus on understanding the rotational variability of radio…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-01 Simon Daley-Yates , Ian Stevens

Feynman loop integrals are a key ingredient for the calculation of higher order radiation effects, and are responsible for reliable and accurate theoretical prediction. We improve the efficiency of numerical integration in sector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-12 Zhao Li , Jian Wang , Qi-Shu Yan , Xiaoran Zhao

We describe a newly developed code for the extrapolation of nonlinear force-free coronal magnetic fields in spherical coordinates. The program uses measured vector magnetograms on the solar photosphere as input and solves the force-free…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Thomas Wiegelmann

Over the past decades, multiple gyrokinetic codes have shown to be able to simulate turbulence and associated transport in the core of Tokamak devices. However, their application to the edge and scrape-off layer (SOL) region presents…

This study investigates a simplified stellarator configuration employing circular coils, in which rotational transform is generated by tilting the toroidal field (TF) coils. A pair of axisymmetric poloidal field (PF) coils is introduced to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Ashit Kumar Nath , Yasuhiro Suzuki

In designing an experiment to measure a neutron electric dipole moment (nEDM), it is often necessary to determine the behavior of an ensemble of spins under time-dependent and randomly fluctuating magnetic fields. This is particularly…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-03-25 Raymond Tat

Measuring stress fields in fluids and soft materials is crucial in various fields such as mechanical engineering, medicine, and bioengineering. However, conventional methods that calculate stress fields from velocity fields struggle to…

In this work, we examine the validity of several common simplifying assumptions used in numerical neoclassical calculations for nonaxisymmetric plasmas, both by using a new continuum drift-kinetic code and by considering analytic properties…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Matt Landreman , Håkan M Smith , Albert Mollén , Per Helander

The toroidal phase and rotation of otherwise locked magnetic islands of toroidal mode number n=1 are controlled in the DIII-D tokamak by means of applied magnetic perturbations of n=1. Pre-emptive perturbations were applied in feedforward…

Hubbard-corrected density-functional theory has proven to be successful in addressing self-interaction errors in 3D magnetic materials. However, the effectiveness of this approach for 2D magnetic materials has not been extensively explored.…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-05 Fatemeh Haddadi , Edward Linscott , Iurii Timrov , Nicola Marzari , Marco Gibertini

A new method to obtain the radial profile of the magnetic perturbation in a toroidal force-free plasma having circular cross section is developed. The method is quite general and can be applied to any circular low-beta plasma once suitable…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Terranova , Paolo Zanca

Extending the current understanding and use of magnonics beyond conventional planar systems, we demonstrate surface localization of spin-wave ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) modes by designing complex three-dimensional nanostructures. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-07 Mateusz Gołębiewski , Krzysztof Szulc , Maciej Krawczyk

3D Galactic magnetic fields are critical for understanding the interstellar medium, Galactic foreground polarization, and the propagation of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. Leveraging recent theoretical insights into anisotropic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-23 Yue Hu