In plasma physics, the particle-in-cell (PIC) method refers to a technique used to solve a certain class of partial differential equations.

Fig. 31 The Particle-In-Cell (PIC) method follows the evolution of a collection of charged macro-particles (positively charged in blue on the left plot, negatively charged in red) that evolve self …

Except for normalization of constants, PIConGPU implements the governing equations in SI units. The 3D3V particle-in-cell algorithm is used to describe many-body systems such as plasmas. …

Mar 2, 2023 · In PIC simulations, particles like electrons and ions are modeled as discrete entities that move in continuous fields that are calculated on a computational mesh. The motion of …

For plasmas, charged particles interact self consistently via the electromagnetic fields they themselves produce. The PIC model works at the most fundamental, microscopic level. As a …

Jan 14, 2025 · The particle-in-cell (PIC) method with Monte Carlo collisions (MCC) is widely used in the simulation of non-equilibrium plasmas for electric propulsion and laboratory applications. …

The different steps of the particle-in-cell algorithm: solving the time-dependent Maxwell equations to update the electromagnetic field; interpolating the field values onto the particles to compute …

Jul 30, 2024 · This eight-week online course will teach you how develop electrostatic plasma simulation codes using the Particle In Cell (PIC) method. PIC is a popular numerical approach …

Abstract—We design and develop a new Particle-in-Cell (PIC) method for plasma simulations using Deep-Learning (DL) to calculate the electric field from the electron phase space. We …

With this algorithm, the number of operations for a simulation with N P particles and N c e l l s grid cells will scale as ∼ α × N P + β (N c e l l s), where α is an integer constant (on the order of ∼ …