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Particle-in-Cell (PIC) method is a powerful plasma simulation tool for investigating high-intensity femtosecond laser-matter interaction. However, its simulation capability at high-density plasmas around the Fermi temperature is considered…

This study established a quantum-classical hybrid framework that integrates quantum computing paradigm with meshfree finite particle method. By harnessing quantum superposition and entanglement, it hybridized the critical computational…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-16 Yudong Li , Wenkui Shi , Yan Li , Chunfa Wang , Ling Tao , Zhuojia Fu , Moubin Liu , Zhiqiang Feng

Particle-In-Cell (PIC) methods are frequently used for kinetic, high-fidelity simulations of plasmas. Implicit formulations of PIC algorithms feature strong conservation properties, up to numerical round-off errors, and are not subject to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-10-26 R. Kube , R. M. Churchill , B. Sturdevant

The quasi-neutral hybrid model with kinetic ions and fluid electrons is a promising approach for bridging the inherent multi-scale nature of many problems in space and laboratory plasmas. Here, a novel, implicit, particle-in-cell based…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 A. Stanier , L. Chacón , G. Chen

An integrated simulation approach fully based upon particle-in-cell (PIC) model is proposed, which involves both fast particle generation via laser solid-density plasma interaction and transport and energy deposition of the particles in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-01-12 W. -M. Wang , P. Gibbon , Z. -M. Sheng , Y. -T. Li

We design and develop a new Particle-in-Cell (PIC) method for plasma simulations using Deep-Learning (DL) to calculate the electric field from the electron phase space. We train a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) and a Convolutional Neural…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Xavier Aguilar , Stefano Markidis

The rapid development of AI highlights the pressing need for sustainable energy, a critical global challenge for decades. Nuclear fusion, generally seen as an ultimate solution, has been the focus of intensive research for nearly a century,…

In this paper, we present a novel numerical framework for solving a specific biological reaction-diffusion-advection system of cancer growth in three dimensions (3D) using particles of variable mass. We adopt empirical particle measures to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Jingyuan Hu , Zhongjian Wang , Jack Xin , Zhiwen Zhang

Modeling multi-scale collisionless magnetized processes constitutes an important numerical challenge. By treating electrons as a fluid and ions kinetically, the so-called hybrid Particle-In-Cell (PIC) codes represent a promising…

We study the geometric particle-in-cell methods for an electrostatic hybrid plasma model. In this model, ions are described by the fully kinetic equations, electron density is determined by the Boltzmann relation, and space-charge effects…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Yingzhe Li

Particle-in-Cell (PIC) methods have achieved widespread recognition as simple and flexible approaches to model collisionless plasma physics in fully kinetic simulations of astrophysical environments. However, in many situations the standard…

The accurate prediction of occurrence and strength of kinetic instabilities in plasmas remains a significant challenge in nuclear fusion research. To accurately capture the plasmas dynamics one is required to solve the Vlasov equation for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Rostislav-Paul Wilhelm , Jan Eifert , Manuel Torrilhon

With the great development of parallel computing techniques, the particle-particle (PP) model has been successfully applied in a number of plasma applications. Comparing to particle-mesh (PM) models, for example the widely used…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Yanan Zhang , Xiaochun Ma , Hui Liu , Yinjian Zhao

Validity of fluid models breaks down for non-thermal or weakly collisional plasmas which often occur e.g. in the solar wind. In these regimes one has to resort to modelling through the first-principle Vlasov-Maxwell system, but its…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Rostislav-Paul Wilhelm , Fabio Bacchini

A computational fluid model is developed to study waves and instabilities. A new technique involving initial perturbations in configuration space have been implemented to excite the plasma waves; i.e. the perturbations acting similar to a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Hakimi Pajouh , M. R. Rouhani , H. Abbasi , F. Kazeminejad , S. Rouhani

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

Hybrid codes are widely used to model ion-scale phenomena in space plasmas. Hybrid codes differ from full particle (PIC) codes in that the electrons are modeled as a fluid that is usually assumed to be massless, while the electric field is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-04-05 D. Winske , Homa Karimabadi , Ari Le , N. Omidi , Vadim Roytershteyn , Adam Stanier

Drift-diffusion plasma fluid models are commonly used to simulate electric discharges. Such models can computationally be very efficient if they are combined with explicit time integration. This paper deals with two issues that often arise…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Jannis Teunissen

The particle-in-cell (PIC) method is successfully used to study magnetized plasmas. However, this requires large computational costs and limits simulations to short physical run-times and often to setups in less than three spatial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-24 Rouven Lemmerz , Mohamad Shalaby , Timon Thomas , Christoph Pfrommer

Non-neutral plasmas can excite many nonlinear plasma phenomena, e.g., collisionless shocks, sheath layers, solitons, and plasma plumes. It is a fundamental issue in fields such as astrophysics, space physics, nuclear fusion, and plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 Jin-Long Jiao