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Space plasma is a collisionless, multi-scale, and highly nonlinear medium. Computer simulations with the first-principle kinetic equation are essential for studying multi-scale processes in space plasma. We develop a parallel Vlasov (collisionless Boltzmann) simulation code for practical use on currently-existing supercomputer systems. The weak-scaling benchmark test shows that our parallel Vlasov code achieves a high performance and a high scalability. The parallel Vlasov code is applied to various physical problems in space plasma, such as cross-scale coupling between fluid scales and particle kinetic scales.
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Umeda, T., Fukazawa, K. (2013). Performance Measurement of Parallel Vlasov Code for Space Plasma on Scalar-Type Supercomputer Systems with Large Number of Cores. In: Tan, G., Yeo, G.K., Turner, S.J., Teo, Y.M. (eds) AsiaSim 2013. AsiaSim 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 402. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45037-2_60
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