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Notes from the simulation box.
Practical articles, case studies and benchmarks for computational plasma physicists.
Article· PIC· V&V· Numerics
10 mistakes that silently ruin particle-in-cell simulations
Numerical heating, unresolved scales, noisy diagnostics and other PIC pitfalls that produce plausible but wrong results, and how to catch them.
Article· PIC· HPC· Software
Choosing a PIC code in 2026: WarpX, EPOCH, Smilei, PIConGPU and friends
A practical comparison of open-source particle-in-cell codes for laser–plasma, astrophysical and low-temperature plasma research: strengths, hardware and learning curve.
Article· Laser–plasma· Astrophysics· Lab-to-Cosmos
Laboratory astrophysics: what lasers teach us about the solar corona
How scaled high-power laser experiments recreate collisionless shocks, magnetic reconnection and magnetic-field generation found in space, and why simulations are the bridge.