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We propose a spectral Particle-In-Cell (PIC) algorithm that is based on the combination of a Hankel transform and a Fourier transform. For physical problems that have close-to-cylindrical symmetry, this algorithm can be much faster than…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Remi Lehe , Manuel Kirchen , Igor A. Andriyash , Brendan B. Godfrey , Jean-Luc Vay

We propose a scheme to calculate the reduced plasma frequency of a cylindrical-shaped electron beam flowing inside of a cylindrical tunnel, based on results obtained from Particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. In PIC simulations, we modulate…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Tarek Mealy , Robert Marosi , Filippo Capolino

Particle tracking simulations with space charge effects are very important for high-intensity proton rings. Since they include not only Hamilton mechanics of a single particle but constructing charge densities and solving Poisson equations…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Yoshinori Kurimoto

A challenging and fundamental research problem is the better understanding and control of the turbulent transport of heat in present-day tokamak fusion experiments. Recent developments in numerical methods along with enormous gains in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Jeremy Kepner , Scott Parker , Viktor Decyk

Finite-grid (or aliasing) instabilities are pervasive in particle-in-cell (PIC) plasma simulation algorithms, and force the modeler to resolve the smallest (Debye) length scale in the problem regardless of dynamical relevance. These…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-10-25 D. C. Barnes , L. Chacon

Large-scale plasma simulations are critical for designing and developing next-generation fusion energy devices and modeling industrial plasmas. BIT1 is a massively parallel Particle-in-Cell code designed for specifically studying plasma…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Jeremy J. Williams , David Tskhakaya , Stefan Costea , Ivy B. Peng , Marta Garcia-Gasulla , Stefano Markidis

A fundamental task in particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of plasma physics is solving for charged particle motion in electromagnetic fields. This problem is especially challenging when the plasma is strongly magnetized due to numerical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Tri P. Nguyen , Ilon Joseph , Mayya Tokman

This paper focuses on the parallel implementation of a direct $N$-body method~(particle-particle algorithm) and the application of multiple GPUs for galactic dynamics simulations. Application of a hybrid OpenMP-CUDA technology is considered…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-03-06 S. S. Khrapov , S. A. Khoperskov , A. V. Khoperskov

JAX-in-Cell is a fully electromagnetic, multispecies, and relativistic 1D3V Particle-in-Cell (PIC) framework implemented entirely in JAX. It provides a modern, Python-based alternative to traditional PIC frameworks. It leverages…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Longyu Ma , Rogerio Jorge , Hongke Lu , Aaron Tran , Christopher Woolford

We propose and study a Particle-In-Cell (PIC) method based on the Crank-Nicolson time discretization for the Vlasov-Poisson system with a strong and inhomogeneous external magnetic field with fixed direction, where we focus on the motion of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Francis Filbet , L Miguel Rodrigues , Kim Han Trinh

Particle-mesh methods, such as the particle-in-cell (PIC) method, cannot retain exact pairwise interaction at sub-cell scales. For dense nonneutral relativistic electron bunches, this makes it difficult to accurately capture the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Yinjian Zhao , Yibo Liang , Yanan Zhang , Xiaochun Ma , Hui Liu

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

The Cellular Potts Model (CPM) is a widely used simulation paradigm for systems of interacting cells that has been used to study scenarios ranging from plant development to morphogenesis, tumour growth and cell migration. Despite their wide…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-18 Shabaz Sultan , Sapna Devi , Scott N. Mueller , Johannes Textor

We extend the recently-developed explicit, energy-conserving particle-in-cell (PIC) scheme of [1] to the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system. As in the non-relativistic case, the method is built on an optimization problem that is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Lee Ricketson , Jingwei Hu

In this paper, we present three-dimensional (3D) Particle-In-Cell (PIC) simulations to study the stability of 2D Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal (BGK) modes in a magnetized plasma with a finite background magnetic field. The simulations were…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 M. T. Franciscovich , J. McClung , K. Germaschewski , C. S. Ng

The present paper studies two particle management strategies for dynamically adaptive Cartesian grids at hands of a particle-in-cell code. One holds the particles within the grid cells, the other within the grid vertices. The fundamental…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-01-11 T. Weinzierl , B. Verleye , P. Henri , D. Roose

The TREE method has been widely used for long-range interaction {\it N}-body problems. We have developed a parallel TREE code for two-component classical plasmas with open boundary conditions and highly non-uniform charge distributions. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-05-04 Byoungseon Jeon , Joel D. Kress , Lee A. Collins , Niels Grønbech-Jensen

Modeling of kinetic plasmas using electromagnetic particle in cell methods (EM-PIC) is a problem that is well worn, in that methods developed have been used extensively both understanding physics and exploiting them for device design.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Zane D. Crawford , Scott O'Connor , John Luginsland , B. Shanker

In particle-in-cell simulations, excessive or even unfeasible computational demands can be caused by the growth of the number of particles in the course of prolific ionization or cascaded pair production due to the effects of quantum…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-25 A. Muraviev , A. Bashinov , E. Efimenko , V. Volokitin , I. Meyerov , A. Gonoskov

The expansion of a magnetized high-pressure plasma into a low-pressure ambient medium is examined with particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. The magnetic field points perpendicularly to the plasma's expansion direction and binary collisions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-09-13 Mark Eric Dieckmann , Gianluca Sarri , Domenico Doria , Anders Ynnerman , Marco Borghesi