We introduce a quasi-static particle-in-cell (PIC) code -- WAND-PIC -- which does not suffer from some of the common limitations of many quasi-static PICs, such as the need for a predictor-corrector method in solving electromagnetic fields. We derive the field equations under quasi-static (QS) approximation and find the explicit form of the "time" derivative of the transverse plasma current. After that, equations for the magnetic fields can be solved exactly without using the predictor-corrector method. Algorithm design and code structure are thus greatly simplified. With the help of explicit quasi-static equations and our adaptive step size, plasma bubbles driven by the large beam charges can be simulated efficiently without suffering from the numerical instabilities associated with the predictor-corrector method. In addition, WAND-PIC is able to simulate the sophisticated interactions between high-frequency laser fields and beam particles through the method of sub-cycling. Comparisons between the WAND-PIC and a first-principle full PIC code (VLPL) are presented. WAND-PIC is open-source, fully three-dimensional, and parallelized with the in-house multigrid solver. Scalability, time complexity, and parallelization efficiency up to thousands of cores are also discussed in this work.
Maximum Energy of Particles Accelerated in Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglow Shocks
Purdue University（普渡大学）；Universidad Nacional de Colombia（哥伦比亚国立大学）；The Open University of Israel（以色列开放大学）；Astrophysics Research Center of the Open University (ARCO), The Open University of Israel（以色列开放大学天体物理研究中心）；The George Washington University（乔治华盛顿大学）；KU Leuven（荷语鲁汶大学）；Columbia University（哥伦比亚大学）；Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute（纽约联邦研究院计算天体物理学中心）
Quantitatively consistent computation of coherent and incoherent radiation in particle-in-cell codes - a general form factor formalism for macro-particles
Radiative PIC simulations of relativistic pair plasma: multiple interacting current sheets and turbulent evolution
INAF, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri（意大利国家天体物理研究所，阿切尔西天文台）；SETI Institute（搜寻地外文明研究所）；Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università degli Studi di Firenze（佛罗伦萨大学，物理与天文系）；INFN, Via G. Sansone 1（意大利国家核物理研究所）；IAPS, INAF（国际空间科学研究所，意大利国家天体物理研究所）；ENEA, NUC Department（意大利国家新 technologies、能源和可持续经济发展署，核能部门）；Institut für Theoretische Physik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum（波鸿鲁尔大学，理论物理研究所）
1D PIC Simulations of Resonant Scattering-Driven Pair Cascades in Magnetar Magnetospheres
Dartmouth College（达特茅斯学院）；University of Maryland, College Park（马里兰大学帕克分校）；Stanford University（斯坦福大学）；Columbia University（哥伦比亚大学）；Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics（马克斯·普朗克天体物理学研究所）；Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute（平顿研究所计算天体物理中心）
Particle acceleration by circularly and elliptically polarised dispersive Alfven waves in a transversely inhomogeneous plasma in the inertial and kinetic regimes
