TY  - JOUR
A1  - Nishikawa, Ken-Ichi
A1  - Mizuno, Yosuke
A1  - Gómez, Jose L.
A1  - Duţan, Ioana
A1  - Meli, Athina
A1  - Niemiec, Jacek
A1  - Kobzar, Oleh
A1  - Pohl, Martin
A1  - Sol, Helene
A1  - MacDonald, Nicholas
A1  - Hartmann, Dieter H.
T1  - Relativistic jet simulations of the weibel instability in the slab model to cylindrical jets with helical magnetic fields
T2  - Galaxies
N2  - The particle-in-cell (PIC) method was developed to investigate microscopic phenomena, and with the advances in computing power, newly developed codes have been used for several fields, such as astrophysical, magnetospheric, and solar plasmas. PIC applications have grown extensively, with large computing powers available on supercomputers such as Pleiades and Blue Waters in the US. For astrophysical plasma research, PIC methods have been utilized for several topics, such as reconnection, pulsar dynamics, non-relativistic shocks, relativistic shocks, and relativistic jets. PIC simulations of relativistic jets have been reviewed with emphasis placed on the physics involved in the simulations. This review summarizes PIC simulations, starting with the Weibel instability in slab models of jets, and then focuses on global jet evolution in helical magnetic field geometry. In particular, we address kinetic Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities and mushroom instabilities.
KW  - particle-in-cell simulations
KW  - relativistic jets
KW  - the Weibel instability
KW  - kink-like instability
KW  - mushroom instability
KW  - global jets
KW  - helical magnetic fields
KW  - recollimation shocks
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/51500
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-515002
SN  - 2075-4434
N1  - This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
VL  - 7
IS  - 1, Art. 29
SP  - 1
EP  - 20
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel
ER  -