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Welcome to the VPIC wiki.
This is very much a work in progress, but best efforts will be made to ensure it contains useful information and is kept up to date.
DS Montgomery, Brian James Albright, DH Barnak, Po-Yu Chang, JR Davies, G Fiksel, DH Froula, JL Kline, MJ MacDonald, AB Sefkow, L Yin, R Betti, "Use of external magnetic fields in hohlraum plasmas to improve laser-coupling,” Physics of Plasmas 22, 010703 (2015).
RK Kirkwood, Y Ping, SC Wilks, N Meezan, P Michel, E Williams, D Clark, L Suter, O Landen, Nathaniel J Fisch, EJ Valeo, V Malkin, D Turnbull, S Suckewer, J Wurtele, TL Wang, SF Martins, C Joshi, L Yin, BJ Albright, HA Rose, KJ Bowers, "Observation of amplification of light by Langmuir waves and its saturation on the electron kinetic timescale,” Journal of Plasma Physics 77, 521 (2011).
Short pulse laser-plasma interaction for ion acceleration, radiation sources, and fast ignition (Trident, LULI, Texas Petawatt):
D Jung, L Yin, BJ Albright, DC Gautier, S Letzring, B Dromey, M Yeung, Rainer Hörlein, R Shah, S Palaniyappan, K Allinger, Jörg Schreiber, KJ Bowers, HC Wu, JC Fernandez, Dietrich Habs, BM Hegeloch, "Efficient carbon ion beam generation from laser-driven volume acceleration,” New Journal of Physics 15, 023007 (2013).
Sasi Palaniyappan, B Manuel Hegelich, Hui-Chun Wu, Daniel Jung, Donald C Gautier, Lin Yin, Brian J Albright, Randall P Johnson, Tsutomu Shimada, Samuel Letzring, Dustin T Offermann, Jun Ren, Chengkun Huang, Rainer Hörlein, Brendan Dromey, Juan C Fernandez, Rahul C Shah, "Dynamics of relativistic transparency and optical shuttering in expanding overdose plasmas,” Nature Physics 8, 763 (2012).
Roytershteyn, V., Daughton, W., Dorfman, S., Ren, Y., Ji, H., Yamada, M., ... & Bowers, K. J. (2010). Driven magnetic reconnection near the Dreicer limit. Physics of Plasmas, 17(5), 055706. Roytershteyn, V., Dorfman, S., Daughton, W., Ji, H., Yamada, M., & Karimabadi, H. (2013). Electromagnetic instability of thin reconnection layers: Comparison of three-dimensional simulations with MRX observations. Physics of Plasmas, 20(6), 061212.
Stanier, A., Daughton, W., Le, A., Li, X., & Bird, R. (2019). Influence of 3D plasmoid dynamics on the transition from collisional to kinetic reconnection. Physics of Plasmas, 26(7), 072121.
Greess, S., Egedal, J., Stanier, A., Olson, J., Daughton, B., Le, A., ... & Forest, C. (2019). New Milestones in Comparing Experimental and Simulated Reconnection: Results from TREX and Cylindrical VPIC. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. Endrizzi, D., Forest, C., Stanier, A., Egedal, J., & Olson, J. (2018). Theta Pinch Collisionless Shock Experiment on the Big Red Ball. In APS Meeting Abstracts.
Sauppe, J. P., & Daughton, W. (2018). Kinetic-scale flux rope reconnection in periodic and line-tied geometries. Physics of Plasmas, 25(1), 012901.
Wetherton, B. A., Egedal, J., Lê, A., & Daughton, W. (2019). Validation of anisotropic electron fluid closure through in situ spacecraft observations of magnetic reconnection. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(12), 6223-6229.
J. Egedal, J. Ng, A. Le, W. Daughton, B. Wetherton, and J. Dorelli, Pressure Tensor Elements Breaking the Frozen-In Law During Reconnection in Earth’s Magnetotail, Phys. Rev. Lett, in press, 2019
- Supported Particle Boundary Conditions: periodic, reflecting, absorbing, maxwellian (not included in release), and custom.
- Particle sorting: In- and out-of- place
- Collisions (binary/unary): Takizuka-abe, large_angle_coulomb, langevin, hardsphere
- Divergence cleaning
- Custom particle injection
- Custom current injection
- Custom field injection
- User provided diagnostics
The input deck of VPIC is very powerful, and lets you insert arbitrary C++ code. Many of the features are documented here.
The following sections contains some interesting reading:
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