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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

We develop a multiscale hybrid scheme for simulations of soft condensed matter systems, which allows one to treat the system at the particle level in selected regions of space, and at the continuum level elsewhere. It is derived…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-17 Shuanhu Qi , Hans Behringer , Friederike Schmid

Kinetic plasma processes, such as magnetic reconnection, collisionless shocks, and turbulence, are fundamental to the dynamics of astrophysical and laboratory plasmas. Simulating these processes often requires particle-in-cell (PIC)…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 S. R. Totorica , K. V. Lezhnin , W. Fox

Space plasma simulations have seen an increase in the use of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) with embedded Particle-in-Cell (PIC) models. This combined MHD-EPIC algorithm simulates some regions of interest using the kinetic PIC method while…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Yinsi Shou , Valeriy Tenishev , Yuxi Chen , Gabor Toth , Natalia Ganushkina

Room-temperature metals and semi-metals which consist of a gas of bound electrons in a near-continuum band structure can be classified as cold quantum plasmas. This insight suggests that Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations, traditionally…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Gregory K. Ngirmang , Hue T. B. Do , Guangxin Liu , Michel Bosman , Lin Wu

We introduce $\texttt{A}$strophysical $\texttt{H}$ybrid-$\texttt{K}$inetic simulations with the $\texttt{flASH}$ code ($\texttt{AHKASH}$) -- a new Hybrid particle-in-cell (PIC) code developed within the framework of the multi-physics code…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-24 Radhika Achikanath Chirakkara , Christoph Federrath , Amit Seta

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) simulation codes have wide applicability to first-principles modeling of multidimensional nonlinear plasma phenomena, including wake-field accelerators. This review addresses both finite difference and pseudo-spectral…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-08-07 Brendan B. Godfrey

We discuss in detail a recently proposed hybrid particle-continuum scheme for complex fluids and evaluate it at the example of a confined homopolymer solution in slit geometry. The hybrid scheme treats polymer chains near the impenetrable…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-10-28 Shuanhu Qi , Hans Behringer , Thorsten Raasch , Friederike Schmid

Plasma dynamics is a multi-scale problem that involves many spatial and temporal scales. Turbulence connects the disparate scales in this system through a cascade that is established by nonlinear interactions. Most astrophysical plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 C. A. González , T. Parashar , D. Gomez , W. H. Matthaeus , P. Dmitruk

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…

The simulation of stochastic reaction-diffusion systems using fine-grained representations can become computationally prohibitive when particle numbers become large. If particle numbers are sufficiently high then it may be possible to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-10-02 Christian A. Yates , Adam George , Armand Jordana , Cameron A. Smith , Andrew B. Duncan , Konstantinos C. Zygalakis

We present a multiscale hybrid particle-field scheme for the simulation of relaxation and diffusion behavior of soft condensed matter systems. It combines particle-based Brownian dynamics and field-based local dynamics in an adaptive sense…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-09-06 Shuanhu Qi , Friederike Schmid

We present a hybrid quantum-classical electrostatic Particle-in-Cell (PIC) method, where the electrostatic field Poisson solver is implemented on a quantum computer simulator using a hybrid classical-quantum Neural Network (HNN) using…

Laboratory plasmas in open magnetic geometries can be found in many different applications such as (1) Scrape-Of-Layer (SOL) and divertor regions in toroidal confinement fusion devices (\approx1-10^2\hspace{1mm}\mathrm{eV}), (2) linear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Atul Kumar , J. F. Caneses Marin

We describe how a new framework for coupling a full-PIC algorithm with a reduced PIC algorithm has been implemented into the code OSIRIS. We show that OSIRIS with this new hybrid-PIC algorithm can efficiently and accurately model high…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-05-15 F. Fiuza , M. Marti , R. A. Fonseca , L. O. Silva , J. Tonge , J. May , W. B. Mori

High-fidelity electron microscopy simulations required for quantitative crystal structure refinements face a fundamental challenge: while physical interactions are well-described theoretically, real-world experimental effects are…

A new model for the electrical conductivity of dense plasmas with a mixture of ion species, containing no adjustable parameters, is presented. The model takes the temperature, mass density and relative abundances of the species as input. It…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 C. E. Starrett , N. R. Shaffer , D. Saumon , R. Perriot , T. Nelson , L. A. Collins , C. Ticknor

The dissipation mechanism of the magnetic energy in turbulent collisionless space and astrophysical plasmas is still not well understood. Its investigation requires efficient kinetic simulations of the energy transfer in collisionless…

Many problems in astrophysics involve relativistic outflows. The plasma dynamics in these scenarios is critical to determine the conditions for the self-consistent evolution of the fields and particle acceleration. Advances in computer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 L. O. Silva