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There are now more Particle-in-Cell (PIC) codes than ever before that researchers use to simulate intense laser-plasma interactions. To date, there have been relatively few direct comparisons of these codes in the literature, especially for…

Computational biology has increasingly turned to agent-based modeling to explore complex biological systems. Biological diffusion (diffusion, decay, secretion, and uptake) is a key driver of biological tissues. GPU computing can vastly…

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Generative model based image lossless compression algorithms have seen a great success in improving compression ratio. However, the throughput for most of them is less than 1 MB/s even with the most advanced AI accelerated chips, preventing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-14 Ning Kang , Shanzhao Qiu , Shifeng Zhang , Zhenguo Li , Shutao Xia

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 electrostatic, implicit particle-in-cell (PIC) model for collisionless, fully magnetized, paraxial plasma expansions in a magnetic nozzle is introduced with exact charge, energy, and magnetic moment conservation properties. The approach…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Pedro Jimenez , Luis Chacon , Mario Merino

High-fidelity modeling of plasma-based acceleration (PBA) requires the use of 3D fully nonlinear and kinetic descriptions based on the particle-in-cell (PIC) method. Three-dimensional PIC algorithms based on the quasi-static approximation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-09-28 Fei Li , Weiming An , Frank S. Tsung , Viktor K. Decyk , Warren B. Mori

We perform a scaling and performance portability study of the particle-in-cell scheme for plasma physics applications through a set of mini-apps we name "Alpine", which can make use of exascale computing capabilities. The mini-apps are…

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

We present an efficient and accurate energy-conserving implicit particle-in-cell~(PIC) algorithm for the electrostatic Vlasov system, with particular emphasis on its high robustness for simulating complex plasma systems with multiple…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-11-21 Zhuoning Li , Zhenli Xu , Zhiguo Yang

Physical scenarios where the electromagnetic fields are so strong that Quantum ElectroDynamics (QED) plays a substantial role are one of the frontiers of contemporary plasma physics research. Investigating those scenarios requires…

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…

Recently proposed modifications of the standard particle-in-cell (PIC) method resolve long-standing limitations such as exact preservation of physically conserved quantities and unbiased ensemble down-sampling. Such advances pave the way…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Frida Brogren , Christoffer Olofsson , Joel Magnusson , Arkady Gonoskov

The Gyrokinetic Toroidal Code at Princeton (GTC-P) is a highly scalable and portable particle-in-cell (PIC) code. It solves the 5D Vlasov-Poisson equation featuring efficient utilization of modern parallel computer architectures at the…

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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

As fusion energy devices advance, plasma simulations are crucial for reactor design. Our work extends BIT1 hybrid parallelization by integrating MPI with OpenMP and OpenACC, focusing on asynchronous multi-GPU programming. Results show…

Particle accelerators are among the largest, most complex devices. To meet the challenges of increasing energy, intensity, accuracy, compactness, complexity and efficiency, increasingly sophisticated computational tools are required for…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-01-13 Axel Huebl , Remi Lehe , Chad E. Mitchell , Ji Qiang , Robert D. Ryne , Ryan T. Sandberg , Jean-Luc Vay

Particle-in-cell codes are the most widely used simulation tools for kinetic studies of ultra-intense laser-plasma interactions. Using the motion of a single electron in a plane electromagnetic wave as a benchmark problem, we show…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Kavin Tangtartharakul , Guangye Chen , Alexey Arefiev

In current computer architectures, data movement (from die to network) is by far the most energy consuming part of an algorithm (10pJ/word on-die to 10,000pJ/word on the network). To increase memory locality at the hardware level and reduce…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 H. Vincenti , R. Lehe , R. Sasanka , J-L. Vay

We introduce a quasi-static particle-in-cell (PIC) code -- WAND-PIC -- which does not suffer from some of the common limitations of many quasi-static PICs, such as the need for a predictor-corrector method in solving electromagnetic fields.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-04-22 Tianhong Wang , Vladimir Khudik , Jihoon Kim , Gennady Shvets

We study parallel particle-in-cell (PIC) methods for low-temperature plasmas (LTPs), which discretize kinetic formulations that capture the time evolution of the probability density function of particles as a function of position and…

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