PINC

Particle-In-Cell (PINC) is an open source scientific program for simulating plasmas using the Particle-In-Cell (PIC) method on a structured mesh. The field quantities are solved using the Geometric Multigrid Method. The focus is on plasma-object interaction, collisions in Farley-Buneman instabilities, and blob instability in tokamaks.

A user guide is unfortunately unavailable.

Contributors

Authors:

• Sigvald Marholm: architecture and data structures, pushers, weighting schemes, spectral solver, parallelization
• Gullik Killie: architecture and data structures, multigrid solver, parallelization
• Vigdis Holta (see separate branch): Neumann boundaries, blob instability for tokamak simulations
• Steffen Brask (see separate branch): Collision module, Farley-Buneman instability
• Jan Deca (see separate branches): Capacitance matrix method for plasma-object interactions
• Trym Erik Nielsen (see seperate branch): Photoelectric emission
• Sayan Adhikari (see seperate branch): Photoelectric emission