Particle simulation of plasmas, employed since the 1960s, provides a self-consistent, fully
kinetic representation of general plasmas. Early incarnations looked for fundamental plasma …

VORPAL is a new plasma simulation code designed for maximum flexibility through use of
advance C++ techniques. Through use of inheritance, VORPAL incorporates multiple …

The algorithms, implementation details, and applications of VPIC, a state-of-the-art first
principles 3D electromagnetic relativistic kinetic particle-in-cell code, are discussed. Unlike …

This paper is the first in a series of three papers to summarize the recent work of an
European‐wide collaborationwhich is ongoing since about one decade using Particle‐in …

Computer-aided highly efficient electromagnetic particle-in-cell (PIC)(CHIPIC) code,
developed at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, is a fully …

Abstract VPIC [1], a first-principles 3d electromagnetic charge-conserving relativistic kinetic
particle-in-cell code, was recently adapted to run on Los Alamos's Roadrunner [2], the first …

VPIC is a general purpose particle-in-cell simulation code for modeling plasma phenomena
such as magnetic reconnection, fusion, solar weather, and laser-plasma interaction in three …

In this study we introduce EMPIRE-PIC, a finite element method particle-in-cell (FEM-PIC)
application developed at Sandia National Laboratories. The code has been developed in …

We demonstrate the outstanding performance and scalability of the VPIC kinetic plasma
modeling code on the heterogeneous IBM Roadrunner supercomputer at Los Alamos …

The status of first principles modeling and simulation tools for vacuum electronics (VEs) is
presented. These tools, when combined with parametric beam-wave interaction tools …