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.
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