Most-cited papers on kinetic particle simulations cell scale

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1. Scaling of asymmetric magnetic reconnection: Kinetic particle‐in‐cell simulations

   2010 · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · Malakit, K., Shay, M. A., Cassak, P. A. et al.

   71 cited

2. Multi-scale plasma simulation by the interlocking of magnetohydrodynamic model and particle-in-cell kinetic model

   2007 · Journal of Computational Physics · Sugiyama, Tooru, Kusano, K.

   50 cited

3. Multiple-scale kinetic simulations with the energy conserving semi-implicit particle in cell method

   2017 · Journal of Plasma Physics · Lapenta, Giovanni, González-Herrero, Diego, Boella, Elisabetta

   27 cited

4. Kinetic Scale Magnetic Reconnection with a Turbulent Forcing: Particle-in-cell Simulations

   2023 · The Astrophysical Journal · Lu, San, Lu, Quanming, Wang, Rongsheng et al.

   15 cited

5. Instabilities and Pattern Formation in Active Particle Suspensions: Kinetic Theory and Continuum Simulations

   2008 · Physical Review Letters · Saintillan, David, Shelley, Michael

   475 cited

6. Simulation of particles and gas flow behavior in the riser section of a circulating fluidized bed using the kinetic theory approach for the particulate phase

   2000 · Powder Technology · Benyahia, Sofiane, Arastoopour, Hamid, Knowlton, T.M. et al.

   318 cited

7. Particle and fluid simulations of low-temperature plasma discharges: benchmarks and kinetic effects

   2005 · Journal of Physics D Applied Physics · Kim, H C, Iza, Felipe, Yang, Sung Soo et al.

   296 cited

8. Particle pressure and marginal stability limits for a homogeneous monodisperse gas-fluidized bed: kinetic theory and numerical simulations

   1999 · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · Koch, Donald L., Sangani, Ashok S.

   253 cited

9. Avoiding unphysical kinetic traps in Monte Carlo simulations of strongly attractive particles

   2007 · The Journal of Chemical Physics · Whitelam, Stephen, Geissler, Phillip L.

   212 cited

10. Kinetic theory based CFD simulation of turbulent fluidization of FCC particles in a riser

    2006 · Chemical Engineering Science · Jiradilok, Veeraya, Gidaspow, Dimitri, Damronglerd, Somsak et al.

    197 cited

11. A δf particle method for gyrokinetic simulations with kinetic electrons and electromagnetic perturbations

    2003 · Journal of Computational Physics · Chen, Yang, Parker, Scott

    180 cited

12. Tearing instability, flux ropes, and the kinetic current sheet kink instability in the Earth's magnetotail: A three‐dimensional perspective from particle simulations

    1996 · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · Zhu, Zhongwei, Winglee, R. M.

    155 cited

13. Variational formulation of particle algorithms for kinetic plasma simulations

    2013 · Journal of Computational Physics · Evstatiev, Evstati, Shadwick, B. A.

    116 cited

14. Kinetic properties of particle-in-cell simulations compromised by Monte Carlo collisions

    2006 · Physics of Plasmas · Turner, M. M.

    112 cited

15. Kinetic simulations of mildly relativistic shocks – I. Particle acceleration in high Mach number shocks

    2019 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · Crumley, Patrick, Caprioli, Damiano, Markoff, Sera et al.

    108 cited

16. A fully kinetic, self-consistent particle simulation model of the collisionless plasma–sheath region

    1990 · Physics of Fluids B Plasma Physics · Procassini, R.J., Birdsall, C.K., Morse, Edward

    105 cited

17. Hydrodynamic modelling of dense gas-fluidised beds: Comparison of the kinetic theory of granular flow with 3D hard-sphere discrete particle simulations

    2002 · Chemical Engineering Science · Goldschmidt, M.J.V., Beetstra, R., Kuipers, J.A.M.

    102 cited

18. Kinetic model framework for aerosol and cloud surface chemistry and gas-particle interactions – Part 2: Exemplary practical applications and numerical simulations

    2007 · Atmospheric chemistry and physics · Ammann, Markus, Pöschl, Ulrich

    100 cited

19. Particle Rezoning for Multidimensional Kinetic Particle-In-Cell Simulations

    2002 · Journal of Computational Physics · Lapenta, Giovanni

    94 cited

20. Dynamic and Selective Control of the Number of Particles in Kinetic Plasma Simulations

    1994 · Journal of Computational Physics · Lapenta, Giovanni, Brackbill, J. U.

    86 cited

21. Unified gas-kinetic wave-particle methods. II. Multiscale simulation on unstructured mesh

    2019 · Physics of Fluids · Zhu, Yajun, Liu, Chang, Zhong, Chengwen et al.

    82 cited

22. Kinetic Simulations of Cosmic-Ray-modified Shocks. II. Particle Spectra

    2020 · The Astrophysical Journal · Caprioli, Damiano, Haggerty, Colby C., Blasi, Pasquale

    78 cited

23. First-principles Demonstration of Diffusive-advective Particle Acceleration in Kinetic Simulations of Relativistic Plasma Turbulence

    2020 · The Astrophysical Journal Letters · Wong, Kai, Zhdankin, Vladimir, Uzdensky, Dmitri et al.

    72 cited

24. Electron firehose instability: Kinetic linear theory and two‐dimensional particle‐in‐cell simulations

    2008 · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · Camporeale, Enrico, Burgess, D.

    69 cited

25. Global gyrokinetic particle simulations with kinetic electrons

    2007 · Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion · Lin, Zhihong, Nishimura, Y., Xiao, Yong et al.

    67 cited

26. Computational Methods in the Warp Code Framework for Kinetic Simulations of Particle Beams and Plasmas

    2014 · IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science · Friedman, A., Cohen, Ronald H., Grote, D.P. et al.

    64 cited

27. Numerical simulations of flow behavior of gas and particles in spouted beds using frictional-kinetic stresses model

    2009 · Powder Technology · Shuyan, Wang, Li, Xiang, Lu, Huilin et al.

    64 cited

28. Kinetic Monte Carlo and cellular particle dynamics simulations of multicellular systems

    2012 · Physical Review E · Flenner, Elijah, Janosi, Lorant, Barz, Bogdan et al.

    63 cited

29. Kinetic Alfvén waves: Linear theory and a particle‐in‐cell simulation

    2004 · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · Gary, S. Peter, Nishimura, Kazumi

    63 cited

30. Assessment of a detailed biomass pyrolysis kinetic scheme in multiscale simulations of a single-particle pyrolyzer and a pilot-scale entrained flow pyrolyzer

    2021 · Chemical Engineering Journal · Gao, Xi, Lu, Liqiang, Shahnam, Mehrdad et al.

    58 cited