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Accelerating the Particle-In-Cell code ECsim with OpenACC
Elisabetta Boella, Nitin Shukla, Filippo Spiga +3
The Particle-In-Cell (PIC) method is a computational technique widely used in plasma physics to model plasmas at the kinetic level. In this work, we present our effort to prepare t…
Unsupervised classification of fully kinetic simulations of plasmoid instability using Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs)
Sophia Köhne, Elisabetta Boella, Maria Elena Innocenti
The growing amount of data produced by simulations and observations of space physics processes encourages the use of methods rooted in Machine Learning for data analysis and physic…
Mixing the solar wind proton and electron scales. Theory and 2D-PIC simulations of firehose instability
R. A. López, A. Micera, M. Lazar +5
Firehose-like instabilities (FIs) are cited in multiple astrophysical applications. Of particular interest are the kinetic manifestations in weakly-collisional or even collisionles…
Slowdown of interpenetration of two counterpropagating plasma slab due to collective effects
N. Shukla, K. Schoeffler, J. Vieira +3
The nonlinear evolution of electromagnetic instabilities driven by the interpenetration of two plasma clouds is explored using {\it ab initio} kinetic plasma simulations…
On the role of solar wind expansion as a source of whistler waves: scattering of suprathermal electrons and heat flux regulation in the inner heliosphere
A. Micera, A. N. Zhukov, R. A. López +5
The role of solar wind expansion in generating whistler waves is investigated using the EB-iPic3D code, which models solar wind expansion self-consistently within a fully kinetic s…
Enhanced laser-driven proton acceleration via improved fast electron heating in a controlled pre-plasma
L. A. Gizzi, E. Boella, L. Labate +10
The interaction of ultraintense laser pulses with solids is largely affected by the plasma gradient at the vacuum-solid interface, which modifies the absorption and ultimately, con…