TY - JOUR
T1 - Multi-scale simulations of plasma with iPIC3D
AU - Markidis, Stefano
AU - Lapenta, Giovanni
AU - Rizwan-uddin,
N1 - Funding Information:
SM would like to acknowledge support provided by the Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois, and by the DOE through its INIE grant. The authors would also like to acknowledge support provided by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the use of ABE and VIC, high performance cluster of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under the grant agreement no. 218816 (SOTERIA project, http://www.soteria-space.eu ).
PY - 2010/3
Y1 - 2010/3
N2 - The implicit Particle-in-Cell method for the computer simulation of plasma, and its implementation in a three-dimensional parallel code, called iPIC3D, are presented. The implicit integration in time of the Vlasov-Maxwell system, removes the numerical stability constraints and it enables kinetic plasma simulations at magnetohydrodynamics time scales. Simulations of magnetic reconnection in plasma are presented to show the effectiveness of the algorithm.
AB - The implicit Particle-in-Cell method for the computer simulation of plasma, and its implementation in a three-dimensional parallel code, called iPIC3D, are presented. The implicit integration in time of the Vlasov-Maxwell system, removes the numerical stability constraints and it enables kinetic plasma simulations at magnetohydrodynamics time scales. Simulations of magnetic reconnection in plasma are presented to show the effectiveness of the algorithm.
KW - 3D Magnetic reconnection
KW - Computational plasma physics
KW - Implicit PIC
KW - Particle-in-Cell
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U2 - 10.1016/j.matcom.2009.08.038
DO - 10.1016/j.matcom.2009.08.038
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77950955267
VL - 80
SP - 1509
EP - 1519
JO - Mathematics and Computers in Simulation
JF - Mathematics and Computers in Simulation
SN - 0378-4754
IS - 7
ER -