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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

In this paper, we propose energy-conserving Eulerian solvers for the two-species Vlasov-Amp\`{e}re (VA) system and apply the methods to simulate current-driven ion-acoustic instability. The algorithm is generalized from our previous work…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Yingda Cheng , Andrew J. Christlieb , Xinghui Zhong

Numerical heating in particle-in-cell (PIC) codes currently precludes the accurate simulation of cold, relativistic plasma over long periods, severely limiting their applications in astrophysical environments. We present a spatially…

A recent proof-of-principle study proposes a nonlinear electrostatic implicit particle-in-cell (PIC) algorithm in one dimension (Chen, Chacon, Barnes, J. Comput. Phys. 230 (2011) 7018). The algorithm employs a kinetically enslaved…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Guangye Chen , Luis Chacon

Wereportonanewmultiscalemethodapproachforthestudyofsystemswith wide separation of short-range forces acting on short time scales and long-range forces acting on much slower scales. We consider the case of the Poisson-Boltzmann equation that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-22 Giovanni Lapenta , Wei Jiang

This paper discusses energy-conserving time-discretizations for finite element particle-in-cell discretizations of the Vlasov--Maxwell system. A geometric spatially discrete system can be obtained using a standard particle-in-cell…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-21 Katharina Kormann , Eric Sonnendrücker

In order to perform physically faithful particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations, the Gauss's law stands as a critical requirement, since its violation often leads to catastrophic errors in long-term plasma simulations. This work proposes a novel…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-06-04 Zhonghua Qiao , Zhenli Xu , Qian Yin , Shenggao Zhou

The hybrid kinetic-ion fluid-electron plasma model is widely used to study challenging multi-scale problems in space and laboratory plasma physics. Here, a novel conservative scheme for this model employing implicit particle-in-cell…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 A. Stanier , L. Chacon

We introduce a new electrostatic particle-in-cell algorithm capable of using large timesteps compared to particle gyro-period under a uniform external magnetic field. The algorithm extends earlier electrostatic fully implicit PIC…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Guangye Chen , Luis Chacón

Conventional explicit electromagnetic particle-in-cell (PIC) algorithms do not conserve discrete energy exactly. Time-centered fully implicit PIC algorithms can conserve discrete energy exactly, but may introduce large dispersion errors in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Guangye Chen , Luis Chacón , Lin Yin , Brian J. Albright , David J. Stark , Robert F. Bird

The present paper is devoted to the convergence analysis of a class of asymptotic preserving particle schemes [Filbet \& Rodrigues, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 54 (2) (2016)] for the Vlasov equation with a strong external magnetic field. In this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-23 Francis Filbet , Luis Miguel Rodrigues , Hamed Zakerzadeh

In this paper we propose an explicit two-level conservative scheme based on a TE/TM like splitting of the field components in time. Its dispersion properties are adjusted to accelerator problems. It is simpler and faster than the implicit…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-04-27 M. Dohlus , I. Zagorodnov

In this paper, we develop an asymptotic-preserving and energy-conserving (APEC) Particle-In-Cell (PIC) algorithm for the Vlasov-Maxwell system. This algorithm not only guarantees that the asymptotic limiting of the discrete scheme is a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Lijie Ji , Zhiguo Yang , Zhuoning Li , Dong Wu , Shi Jin , Zhenli Xu

We present the standard electromagnetic Particle-in-Cell method, starting from the discrete approximation of derivatives on a uniform grid. The application to second-order, centered, finite-difference discretization of the equations of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-18 J. L. Vay

Recently, a family of models that couple multifluid systems to the full Maxwell equations draw a lot of attention in laboratory, space, and astrophysical plasma modeling. These models are more complete descriptions of the plasma than…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Liang Wang , Ammar Hakim , Jonathan Ng , Chuanfei Dong , Kai Germaschewski

A new Particle-in-Cell (PIC) method, that conserves energy exactly, is presented. The particle equations of motion and the Maxwell's equations are differenced implicitly in time by the midpoint rule and solved concurrently by a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Stefano Markidis , Giovanni Lapenta

As an alternative to solving of Poisson equation in Particle-in-Cell methods, a new construction of current density exactly satisfying continuity equation in finite differences is developed. This procedure called density decomposition is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Timur Zh. Esirkepov

In this paper, we develop Hamiltonian particle-in-cell methods for Vlasov-Maxwell equations by applying conforming finite element methods in space and splitting methods in time. For the spatial discretisation, the criteria for choosing…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Yang He , Yajuan Sun , Hong Qin , Jian Liu

This work presents new parallelizable numerical schemes for the integration of Dissipative Particle Dynamics with Energy conservation (DPDE). So far, no numerical scheme introduced in the literature is able to correctly preserve the energy…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 A. -A. Homman , J. -B. Maillet , J. Roussel , G. Stoltz

A novel energy minimization formulation of electrostatics that allows computation of the electrostatic energy and forces to any desired accuracy in a system with arbitrary dielectric properties is presented. An integral equation for the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 O. I. Obolensky , T. P. Doerr , R. Ray , Yi-Kuo Yu