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In simulations of partial differential equations using particle-in-cell (PIC) methods, it is often advantageous to resample the particle distribution function to increase simulation accuracy, reduce compute cost, and/or avoid numerical…

For the self-consistent description of various plasma sources operated in the low-pressure (nonlocal, kinetic) regime, the Particle-In-Cell simulation approach, combined with the Monte Carlo treatment of collision processes (PIC/MCC), has…

Liquid-fabric interaction simulations using particle-in-cell (PIC) based models have been used to simulate a wide variety of phenomena and yield impressive visual results. However, these models suffer from numerical damping due to the data…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Robert Dennison , Steve Maddock

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

Many high power electronic devices operate in a regime where the current they draw is limited by the self-fields of the particles. This space-charge-limited current poses particular challenges for numerical modeling where common techniques…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-07 Peter H. Stoltz , John W. Luginsland , Andrew M. Chap , David N. Smithe , John R. Cary

Recent developments in high peak-power table-top laser systems reaching highly relativistic light intensities have led to significant advances in laser-driven particle acceleration schemes (mainly the laser wakefield acceleration, LWFA)…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Szilárd Majorosi , Nasr A. M. Hafz , Zsolt Lécz

We present a novel treatment of resonant massive particles appearing as intermediate states in high energy collisions. The approach uses effective field theory methods to treat consistently the instability of the intermediate resonant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Giulia Zanderighi

Modern general-purpose accelerators integrate a large number of programmable area- and energy-efficient processing elements (PEs), to deliver high performance while meeting stringent power delivery and thermal dissipation constraints. In…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Luca Colagrande , Jayanth Jonnalagadda , Luca Benini

Particle-in-cell (PIC) is the most used algorithm to perform self-consistent tracking of intense charged particle beams. It is based on depositing macro-particles on a grid, and subsequently solving on it the Poisson equation. It is well…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 Frederik Kesting , Giuliano Franchetti

In this paper, we present different types of integrators for electro-magnetic particle-in-cell (PIC) methods. While the integrator is an important tool of the PIC methods, it is necessary to characterize the different conservation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-05 Juergen Geiser , Frederik Riedel

The implementation of a new particle module describing the physics of dust grains coupled to the gas via drag forces is the subject of this work. The proposed particle-gas hybrid scheme has been designed to work in Cartesian as well as in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 A. Mignone , M. Flock , B. Vaidya

The pseudo-spectral analytical time-domain (PSATD) particle-in-cell (PIC) algorithm solves the vacuum Maxwell's equations exactly, has no Courant time-step limit (as conventionally defined), and offers substantial flexibility in plasma and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-07-29 Brendan B. Godfrey , Jean-Luc Vay , Irving Haber

We construct high order symmetric volume-preserving methods for the relativistic dynamics of a charged particle by the splitting technique with processing. Via expanding the phase space to include time $t$, we give a more general…

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

We present a detailed strong and weak scaling analysis of PICCANTE, an open source, massively parallel, fully-relativistic Particle-In-Cell (PIC) code. PIC codes are widely used in plasma physics and astrophysics to study the cases where…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-27 Andrea Sgattoni , Luca Fedeli , Stefano Sinigardi , Alberto Marocchino , Andrea Macchi , Volker Weinberg , Anupam Karmakar

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 introduce an extension of the particle-in-cell (PIC) method that captures the Landau collisional effects in the Vlasov-Maxwell-Landau equations. The method arises from a regularisation of the variational formulation of the Landau…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 Rafael Bailo , José A. Carrillo , Jingwei Hu

In this dissertation, a fully object-oriented, fully relativistic, multi-dimensional Particle-In-Cell code was developed and applied to answer key questions in plasma-based accelerator research. The simulations increase the understanding of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-03-03 Roy G. Hemker

A two dimensional electrostatic Particle-in-Cell simulation code is developed to investigate anisotropy of ions in a trench geometry for plasma etching. The numerical simulation results suggest that if the trench width is larger than Debye…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-10-14 Tai-Lu Lin , Yasutaro Nishimura

Explicit structure-preserving geometric Particle-in-Cell (PIC) algorithm in curvilinear orthogonal coordinate systems is developed. The work reported represents a further development of the structure-preserving geometric PIC algorithm…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Jianyuan Xiao , Hong Qin

We propose an adaptive stencil construction for high order accurate finite volume schemes aposteriori stabilized devoted to solve one-dimensional steady-state hyperbolic equations. High-accuracy (up to the sixth-order presently) is achieved…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Gaspar J. Machado , Stéphane Clain , Raphaël Loubère