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 …

Smilei is a collaborative, open-source, object-oriented (C++) particle-in-cell code. To benefit
from the latest advances in high-performance computing (HPC), Smilei is co-developed by …

Kinetic plasma simulations using an electromagnetic particle-in-cell (PIC) algorithm have
become the tool of choice for numerical modeling of several astrophysical and laboratory …

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 …

Plasma science is rich in distinguishable scales ranging from the atomic to the galactic to the
meta-galactic, ie, the mesoscale. Thus plasma science has an important contribution to …

We describe an implementation of a particle physics module available for the PLUTO code
appropriate for the dynamical evolution of a plasma consisting of a thermal fluid and a …

Abstract A Particle-in-Cell (PIC) code, called Parsek2D, for the simulation of astrophysical
and space plasmas is presented. Parsek2D enables simulations with large grid spacing and …

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 …

The particle-in-cell (PIC) method is widely used to model the self-consistent interaction
between discrete particles and electromagnetic fields. It has been successfully applied to …

Particle acceleration in collisionless plasma systems is a central question in astroplasma
and astroparticle physics. The structure of the acceleration regions, electron–ion energy …