A new method to dispatch split particles in particle-in-cell codes

DOI10.1016/J.CPC.2020.107666MaRDI QIDQ6158845zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Roch Smets, Nicolas Aunai, Andrea Ciardi, Matthieu Drouin, Martin Campos Pinto, Philip Deegan

Publication date 31 May 2023

Published in Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.10675

zbMATH Keywords

particle-in-cell techniquesadaptive-mesh-refinementmacro-particles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics, structure of matter (82-XX) Numerical analysis (65-XX)

Abstract: Particle-In-Cell codes are widely used for plasma physics simulations. It is often the case that particles within a computational cell need to be split to improve the statistics or, in the case of non-uniform meshes, to avoid the development of fictitious self-forces. Existing particle splitting methods are largely empirical and their accuracy in preserving the distribution function has not been evaluated in a quantitative way. Here we present a new method specifically designed for codes using adaptive mesh refinement. Although we point out that an exact, distribution function preserving method does exist, it requires a large number of split particles and its practical use is limited. We derive instead a method that minimizes the cost function representing the distance between the assignment function of the original particle and that of the sum of split particles. Depending on the interpolation degree and the dimension of the problem, we provide tabulated results for the weight and position of the split particles. This strategy represents no overhead in computing time and for a large enough number of split-particles it asymptotically tends to the exact solution.

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