Charged particle motion and radiation in strong electromagnetic fields

A Gonoskov, TG Blackburn, M Marklund… - Reviews of Modern …, 2022 - APS
The dynamics of charged particles in electromagnetic fields is an essential component of
understanding the most extreme environments in our Universe. In electromagnetic fields of …

Electromagnetic fireworks: fast radio bursts from rapid reconnection in the compressed magnetar wind

JF Mahlmann, AA Philippov, A Levinson… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
One scenario for the generation of fast radio bursts (FRBs) is magnetic reconnection in a
current sheet of the magnetar wind. Compressed by a strong magnetic pulse induced by a …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial coupling of gyrokinetic simulations, a generalized scheme based on first-principles

J Dominski, J Cheng, G Merlo, V Carey, R Hager… - Physics of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We present a scheme that spatially couples two gyrokinetic codes using first-principles.
Coupled equations are presented and a necessary and sufficient condition for ensuring …

Accuracy of the explicit energy-conserving particle-in-cell method for under-resolved simulations of capacitively coupled plasma discharges

AT Powis, ID Kaganovich - Physics of Plasmas, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The traditional explicit electrostatic momentum-conserving particle-in-cell algorithm requires
strict resolution of the electron Debye length to deliver numerical stability and accuracy. The …

Maintaining trust in reduction: Preserving the accuracy of quantities of interest for lossy compression

Q Gong, X Liang, B Whitney, JY Choi, J Chen… - Smoky Mountains …, 2021 - Springer
As the growth of data sizes continues to outpace computational resources, there is a
pressing need for data reduction techniques that can significantly reduce the amount of data …

First coupled GENE–XGC microturbulence simulations

G Merlo, S Janhunen, F Jenko, A Bhattacharjee… - Physics of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Covering the core and the edge region of a tokamak, respectively, the two gyrokinetic
turbulence codes Gyrokinetic Electromagnetic Numerical Experiment (GENE) and X-point …

Hedging direct simulation Monte Carlo bets via event splitting

G Oblapenko, D Goldstein, P Varghese… - Journal of Computational …, 2022 - Elsevier
We propose a new scheme for simulation of collisions with multiple possible outcomes in
variable-weight DSMC computations. The scheme is applied to a 0-D ionization rate …

An unsupervised machine-learning checkpoint-restart algorithm using Gaussian mixtures for particle-in-cell simulations

G Chen, L Chacón, TB Nguyen - Journal of Computational Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
We propose an unsupervised machine-learning checkpoint-restart (CR) algorithm for
particle-in-cell (PIC) algorithms using Gaussian mixtures (GM). The algorithm compresses …

A dynamical particle merging and splitting algorithm for Particle-In-Cell simulations

Q Dong, B Wang, X Duan, L Yan, K Liu, W Luo… - Computer Physics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract In Particle-In-Cell simulation, macro-particles represent clusters of numerous
physical particles. Rational merging or splitting of these macro-particle clusters can …

FLEKS: A flexible particle-in-cell code for multi-scale plasma simulations

Y Chen, G Tóth, H Zhou, X Wang - Computer Physics Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
The magnetohydrodynamics with embedded particle-in-cell (MHD-EPIC) model has been
successfully applied to global magnetospheric simulations in recent years. However, the PIC …