Loading an isotropic velocity distribution

Tutorial on the simple but important topic of loading particles with uniform spatially distributed velocity. This loading is important when loading background gas for particle simulations or when loading drifting Maxwellian beams. (May 24 2012)

Implementation of VTK-based 3D visualization capability in a solver GUI

Over the past few weeks, we at PIC-C have been busy integrating VTK (The Visualization Toolkit) into a client’s graphical user interface. The client for this project is a company specializing in CFD software for turbomachinery aerodynamic analysis. The client’s solvers are integrated with a Java-based GUI which allows the user to specify input parameters […] (May 3 2012)