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Diffusive shock acceleration at collisionless shocks remains the most likely process for accelerating particles in a variety of astrophysical sources. While the standard prediction for strong shocks is that the spectrum of accelerated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-15 Pierre Cristofari , Pasquale Blasi , Damiano Caprioli

Hot-cold ablative mixing plasmas are ubiquitous in astrophysical and laboratory systems, where a cold/dense plasma is roughly in pressure balance with a hot/dilute plasma. Examples include the plasma thermal quench during major disruptions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Yanzeng Zhang , Xian-Zhu Tang

Fully kinetic two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations are used to study electron acceleration at high-Mach-number nonrelativistic perpendicular shocks. SNR shocks are mediated by the Weibel instability which is excited because of an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-15 Artem Bohdan , Martin Pohl , Jacek Niemiec , Sergei Vafin , Yosuke Matsumoto , Takanobu Amano , Masahiro Hoshino

We simulate the spindle gravitational collapse of a collisionless particle system in a 3D numerical relativity code and compare the qualitative results with the old work done by Shapiro and Teukolsky(ST). The simulation starts from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-03 Chul-Moon Yoo , Tomohiro Harada , Hirotada Okawa

We present a model of mesoparticles, very much in the Dissipative Particle Dynamics spirit, in which a molecule is replaced by a particle with an internal thermodynamic degree of freedom (temperature or energy). The model is shown to give…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Stoltz

When two plasmas collide, their interaction can be mediated by collisionless plasma instabilities or binary collisions between particles of each shell. By comparing the maximum growth rate of the collisionless instabilities with the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Antoine Bret , Asaf Pe'er

The relaxation dynamics of the one-dimensional totally asymmetric simple exclusion process on a ring is considered in the case of step initial condition. Analyzing the time evolution of the local particle densities and currents by the Bethe…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-23 Kohei Motegi , Kazumitsu Sakai , Jun Sato

We present two-dimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of the fully kinetic collisionless magnetorotational instability (MRI) in weakly magnetized (high $\beta$) pair plasma. The central result of this numerical analysis is the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-27 Giannandrea Inchingolo , Thomas Grismayer , Nuno F. Loureiro , Ricardo A. Fonseca , Luis O. Silva

We consider the diffusion of independent particles experiencing random accelerations by a space- and time-dependent force as well as viscous damping. This model can exhibit several asymptotic behaviours, depending upon the limiting cases…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-06-13 B. Mehlig , M. Wilkinson , V. Bezuglyy , K. Gustavsson , K. Nakamura

Impact of single particle onto a rigid substrate leads to its deformation and fragmentation. The flow associated with the particle spreading on a solid substrate after impact is extremely complicated. In this theoretical study a simplified…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-20 Ilia V. Roisman

A method for simulation of elastoplastic solids in multibody systems with nonsmooth and multidomain dynamics is developed. The solid is discretised into pseudo-particles using the meshfree moving least squares method. The particles carry…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-14 John Nordberg , Martin Servin

Particle suspensions are ubiquitous in our daily life, but are not well understood due to their complexity. During the last twenty years, various simulation methods have been developed in order to model these systems. Due to varying…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-03-16 Jens Harting , Martin Hecht , Hans J. Herrmann , Sean McNamara

The one-dimensional Vlasov-Poisson system is considered and a particle method is developed to approximate solutions without compact support which tend to a fixed background of charge as $| x | \to \infty$. Such a system of equations can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-03 Stephen Pankavich

We describe numerical simulations, using the particle-in-cell (PIC) and hybrid-PIC code Lsp [T. P. Hughes et al., Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 2, 110401 (1999)], of the head-on merging of two laboratory supersonic plasma jets. The goals of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-08-28 C. Thoma , D. R. Welch , S. C. Hsu

Molecular Dynamic (MD) approach is applied to study the converging cylindrical shock waves in a dense Lennard-Jones (LJ) fluid. MD method is based on tracking of the atom motions and hence it has an fundamental advantages over hydrodynamic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-04-23 V. Zhakhovskii , K. Nishihara , M. Abe

In this paper we consider the conformal dynamics for a system of $N$ interacting relativistic massless particles. A detailed study is done for the case of two-particles, with a particular attention to the symmetries of the problem. In fact,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-28 Roberto Casalbuoni , Joaquim Gomis

We present three-dimensional hybrid simulations of collisionless shocks that propagate parallel to the background magnetic field to study the acceleration of protons that forms a high-energy tail on the distribution. We focus on the initial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Fan Guo , Joe Giacalone

This Perspective describes current computational efforts in the field of simulating photodynamics of transition metal complexes. We present the typical workflows and feature the strengths and limitations of the different contemporary…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-07-27 J. Patrick Zobel , Leticia Gonzalez

Energetic electrons are a common feature of interplanetary shocks and planetary bow shocks, and they are invoked as a key component of models of nonthermal radio emission, such as solar radio bursts. A simulation study is carried out of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. Burgess

The present work revisits the reduction of the nonlinear dynamics of an electromechanical system through a quasi-steady state hypothesis, discussing the fundamental aspects of this type of approach and clarifying some confusing points found…