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We report a new particle in cell (PIC) method based on the semi-implicit approach. The novelty of the new method is that unlike any of its semi-implicit predecessors at the same time retains the explicit computational cycle and conserves…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Giovanni Lapenta

A conforming finite element scheme with mixed explicit-implicit time discretization for quasi-incompressible Navier-Stokes-Maxwell-Stefan systems in a bounded domain with periodic boundary conditions is presented. The system consists of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Aaron Brunk , Ansgar Jüngel , Maria Lukáčová-Medvid'ová

For more than half a century, most of the plasma scientists have encountered a violation of the conservation laws of charge, momentum, and energy whenever they have numerically solve the first-principle equations of kinetic plasmas, such as…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-11-15 Takashi Shiroto , Naofumi Ohnishi , Yasuhiko Sentoku

We present and rigorously analyze the behavior of a distributed, stochastic algorithm for separation and integration in self-organizing particle systems, an abstraction of programmable matter. Such systems are composed of individual…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Sarah Cannon , Joshua J. Daymude , Cem Gokmen , Dana Randall , Andréa W. Richa

We propose a class of conservative discontinuous Galerkin methods for the Vlasov-Poisson system written as a hyperbolic system using Hermite polynomials in the velocity variable. These schemes are designed to be systematically as accurate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-07 Francis Filbet , Tao Xiong

Recently, fictitious identical particles have provided a promising way to overcome the fermion sign problem and have been used in path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) to accurately simulate warm dense matter with up to 1000 electrons (T.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-08-14 Yunuo Xiong , Shujuan Liu , Hongwei Xiong

The Vlasov-Poisson system is employed in its reduced form version (1D1V) as a test bed for the applicability of Physics Informed Neural Network (PINN) to the wave-particle resonance. Two examples are explored: the Landau damping and the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-08-25 Jai Kumar , David Zarzoso , Virginie Grandgirard , Jan Ebert , Stefan Kesselheim

We propose a class of numerical integration methods for stochastic Poisson systems (SPSs) of arbitrary dimensions. Based on the Darboux-Lie theorem, we transform the SPSs to their canonical form, the generalized stochastic Hamiltonian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Jialin Hong , Jialin Ruan , Liying Sun , Lijin Wang

Based on the particle-in-cell (PIC) plasma simulation method, the speed-limited PIC (SLPIC) method delivers faster kinetic plasma simulation in cases where the particle distributions evolve slowly compared with the maximum stable PIC…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Gregory R. Werner , Thomas G. Jenkins , Andrew M. Chap , John R. Cary

A variational method is used to derive a self-consistent macro-particle model for relativistic electromagnetic kinetic plasma simulations. Extending earlier work [E. G. Evstatiev and B. A. Shadwick, J. Comput. Phys., vol. 245, pp. 376-398,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-04-22 A. B. Stamm , B. A. Shadwick , E. G. Evstatiev

The Particle-In-Cell (PIC) method for plasma simulation tracks particle phase space information using particle and grid data structures. High computational costs in 2D and 3D device-scale PIC simulations necessitate parallelization, with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Libn Varghese , Bhaskar Chaudhury , Miral Shah , Mainak Bandyopadhyay

Particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations with Monte-Carlo collisions are used in plasma science to explore a variety of kinetic effects. One major problem is the long run-time of such simulations. Even on modern computer systems, PIC codes take a…

The mechanical model of a thin plate with boundary control and observation is presented as a port-Hamiltonian system (pHs), both in vectorial and tensorial forms: the Kirchhoff-Love model of a plate is described by using a Stokes-Dirac…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-07 Andrea Brugnoli , Daniel Alazard , Valérie Pommier-Budinger , Denis Matignon

A well-specified parametrization for single-input/single-output (SISO) linear port-Hamiltonian systems amenable to structure-preserving supervised learning is provided. The construction is based on controllable and observable normal form…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Juan-Pablo Ortega , Daiying Yin

A collisionless kinetic plasma model may often be cast as an infinite-dimensional noncanonical Hamiltonian system. I show that, when this is the case, the model can be discretized in space and particles while preserving its Hamiltonian…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 J. W. Burby

The resolution of the system given by Maxwell's equations and Vlasov equation in three dimensions can describe all the phenomena of interest for laser wakefield acceleration, with few exceptions (e.g. ionization). Such arduous task can be…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Francesco Massimo , Imen Zemzemi , Arnaud Beck , Julien Dérouillat , Arnd Specka

This paper discusses temporally continuous and discrete forms of the speed-limited particle-in-cell (SLPIC) method first treated by Werner et al. [Phys. Plasmas 25, 123512 (2018)]. The dispersion relation for a 1D1V electrostatic plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-08-31 Thomas G. Jenkins , Gregory R. Werner , John R. Cary

In this work, we consider a probability representation of quantum dynamics for finite-dimensional quantum systems with the use of pseudostochastic maps acting on true probability distributions. These probability distributions are obtained…

Faceted shapes, such as polyhedra, are commonly found in systems of nanoscale, colloidal, and granular particles. Many interesting physical phenomena, like crystal nucleation and growth, vacancy motion, and glassy dynamics are challenging…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Matthew Spellings , Ryan L. Marson , Joshua A. Anderson , Sharon C. Glotzer

We consider the two-dimensional Vlasov-Poisson system to model a two-component plasma whose distribution function is constant with respect to the third space dimension. First, we show how this two-dimensional Vlasov-Poisson system can be…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-10-12 Patrik Knopf