OpenDust: A fast GPU-accelerated code for calculation forces, acting on microparticles in a plasma flow

Abstract

We present the first open-source, GPU-based code for complex plasmas. The code, OpenDust, aims to provide researchers both experimenters and theorists user-friendly and high-performance tool for self-consistent calculation forces, acting on microparticles, and microparticles' charges in a plasma flow. OpenDust performance originates from highly-optimized Cuda back-end and allows to perform self-consistent calculation of plasma flow around microparticles in seconds. This code outperforms all available codes for self-consistent complex plasma simulation. Moreover, OpenDust can also be used for simulation of larger systems of dust microparticles, that was unavailable before. OpenDust interface is written in Python, which provides ease-of-use and simple installation from Conda repository.