Plasma propulsion modeling with particle-based algorithms

F Taccogna, F Cichocki, D Eremin, G Fubiani… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
This Perspective paper deals with an overview of particle-in-cell/Monte Carlo collision
models applied to different plasma-propulsion configurations and scenarios, from …

Stabilized DG-PSTD method with nonconformal meshes for electromagnetic waves

Q Zhan, Y Fang, M Zhuang, M Yuan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a node-based discontinuous Galerkin (DG) pseudospectral time domain (PSTD)
algorithm, with adaptive nonconformal unstructured meshes, for 3-D large-scale Maxwell's …

[HTML][HTML] FESTUNG: A MATLAB/GNU Octave toolbox for the discontinuous Galerkin method. Part III: Hybridized discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) formulation

A Jaust, B Reuter, V Aizinger, J Schütz… - Computers & Mathematics …, 2018 - Elsevier
The third paper in our series on open source MATLAB/GNU Octave implementation of the
discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method (s) focuses on a hybridized formulation. The main aim …

Parallelizing and balancing coupled DSMC/PIC for large-scale particle simulations

H Qiu, C Xu, D Li, H Wang, J Li… - 2022 IEEE International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In high-performance and parallel computing, an important application class is particle
simulation. Due to massive particle migration among distributed simulation workers across …

Numerical simulation of axisymmetric plasma plume based on gas–surface interaction/electric field coupling

J Li, F Yang, Z Fan, W Du, A Xu - IEEE Transactions on Plasma …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Simulation of the transport of ions and neutral particles is important for studies of the flow
field and working characteristics of jet flow plasma devices. The spatiotemporal evolution of …

Verification and validation of a parallel 3D direct simulation Monte Carlo solver for atmospheric entry applications

P Nizenkov, P Noeding, M Konopka, S Fasoulas - CEAS Space Journal, 2017 - Springer
The in-house direct simulation Monte Carlo solver PICLas, which enables parallel, three-
dimensional simulations of rarefied gas flows, is verified and validated. Theoretical aspects …

Complex-frequency shifted PMLs for Maxwell's equations with hyperbolic divergence cleaning and their application in particle-in-cell codes

SM Copplestone, P Ortwein… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The simulation of unbounded domains inevitably requires an artificial truncation of the
computational domain and spurious reflections resulting from this procedure are a common …

On the efficiency of implicit discontinuous Galerkin spectral element methods for the unsteady compressible Navier-Stokes equations

S Vangelatos - 2020 - elib.uni-stuttgart.de
In this work we investigate the implicit time integration for the Discontinuous Galerkin
Spectral Element Method (DGSEM) with respect to its efficiency and accuracy compared to …

A narrow band-based dynamic load balancing scheme for the level-set ghost-fluid method

D Appel, S Jöns, J Keim, C Müller, J Zeifang… - … Conference on High …, 2021 - Springer
We present a dynamic load balancing scheme for compressible two-phase flows simulations
using a high-order level-set ghost-fluid method. The load imbalance arises from introducing …

A load balance strategy for hybrid particle-mesh methods

P Ortwein, T Binder, S Copplestone, A Mirza… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
We present a load balancing strategy for hybrid particle-mesh methods that is based on
domain decomposition and element-local time measurement. This new strategy is compared …