The old and the new: Can physics-informed deep-learning replace traditional linear solvers?

S Markidis - Frontiers in big Data, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINN) are neural networks encoding the problem
governing equations, such as Partial Differential Equations (PDE), as a part of the neural …

Multi-scale simulations of particle acceleration in astrophysical systems

A Marcowith, G Ferrand, M Grech, Z Meliani… - Living Reviews in …, 2020 - Springer
This review aims at providing an up-to-date status and a general introduction to the subject
of the numerical study of energetic particle acceleration and transport in turbulent …

PIC methods in astrophysics: simulations of relativistic jets and kinetic physics in astrophysical systems

K Nishikawa, I Duţan, C Köhn, Y Mizuno - Living Reviews in …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The Particle-In-Cell (PIC) method has been developed by Oscar Buneman, Charles
Birdsall, Roger W. Hockney, and John Dawson in the 1950s and, with the advances of …

What sustained multi-disciplinary research can achieve: The space weather modeling framework

TI Gombosi, Y Chen, A Glocer, Z Huang… - Journal of Space …, 2021 - swsc-journal.org
Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)-based global space weather models have mostly been
developed and maintained at academic institutions. While the “free spirit” approach of …

Direct observations of anomalous resistivity and diffusion in collisionless plasma

DB Graham, YV Khotyaintsev, M André… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Coulomb collisions provide plasma resistivity and diffusion but in many low-density
astrophysical plasmas such collisions between particles are extremely rare. Scattering of …

Exactly energy conserving semi-implicit particle in cell formulation

G Lapenta - Journal of Computational Physics, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …

Two-way coupling of a global Hall magnetohydrodynamics model with a local implicit particle-in-cell model

LKS Daldorff, G Tóth, TI Gombosi, G Lapenta… - Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Computational models based on a fluid description of the plasma, such as
magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) and extended magnetohydrodynamic (XMHD) codes are …

Particle simulations of space weather

G Lapenta - Journal of Computational Physics, 2012 - Elsevier
We review the application of particle simulation techniques to the full kinetic study of space
weather events. We focus especially on the methods designed to overcome the difficulties …

Secondary reconnection sites in reconnection-generated flux ropes and reconnection fronts

G Lapenta, S Markidis, MV Goldman, DL Newman - Nature Physics, 2015 - nature.com
The primary target of the Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) mission is the electron-scale
diffusion layer around reconnection sites. Here we study where these regions are found in …

Extended magnetohydrodynamics with embedded particle‐in‐cell simulation of Ganymede's magnetosphere

G Tóth, X Jia, S Markidis, IB Peng… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We have recently developed a new modeling capability to embed the implicit particle‐in‐cell
(PIC) model iPIC3D into the Block‐Adaptive‐Tree‐Solarwind‐Roe‐Upwind‐Scheme …