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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…
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…
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…
Collisionless shock acceleration in the corona of an inertial confinement fusion pellet with possible application to ion fast ignition
E. Boella, R. Bingham, R. A. Cairns +6
Two-dimensional Particle-In-Cell simulations are used to explore collisionless shock acceleration in the corona plasma surrounding the compressed core of an inertial confinement fu…
Collisionless heat flux regulation via electron firehose instability in presence of a core and suprathermal population in the expanding solar wind
Maria Elena Innocenti, Elisabetta Boella, Anna Tenerani +1
The evolution of the electron heat flux in the solar wind is regulated by the interplay between several effects: solar wind expansion, that can potentially drive velocity-space ins…