Particle-in-Cell Methods for Simulations of Sheared, Expanding, or Escaping Astrophysical Plasma

Fabio Bacchini, Evgeny A. Gorbunov, Maximilien Péters de Bonhome +4

Particle-in-Cell (PIC) methods have achieved widespread recognition as simple and flexible approaches to model collisionless plasma physics in fully kinetic simulations of astrophy…