Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems, Volume 21

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15439/2020F130

Citation: Proceedings of the 2020 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, M. Ganzha, L. Maciaszek, M. Paprzycki (eds). ACSIS, Vol. 21, pages 381–385 (2020)

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Abstract. Particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations are focusing on the individual trajectories of a very large number of particles in self-consistent and external electric and magnetic fields; they are widely used in the study of plasma jets, for example. The main disadvantage of PIC simulations is the large simulation runtime,which often requires a parallel implementation of the algorithm. The current paper focuses on a PIC1d3v simulation algorithm and describes the successful implementation of a parallel version of it on a multi-core architecture, using OpenMP, with very promising experimental and theoretical results.

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