Talk:Particle-in-cell

I have rewritten this page from scratch. The original entry was poor, and made a rather inappropriate reference to a particular researcher and his code. I have tried to give the proper historical perspective (including essential references), as well as to define the method in the most general possible context. -- Jcandy 08:01, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

I have worked a little harder to get the history correct, and added two references. Also, I think the idea ought to be to keep the introduction general and nontechnical. For this reason, I moved the points about PIC procedure to the Technical Aspects section. Finally, there was a very long, partisan list of codes from a single group. This is really not appropriate, is it? In response, I cut the code list and added the text "Contains links to freely-available software" to the Berkeley link. My opinion is that Wikipedia is not free advertising for your research group's website and projects. -- Jcandy 08:39, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Since PIC method is one kind of PM methods, I think an explanation on PM, PP, and PP-PM in Technical Aspects section should be moved to a new page such as 'particle model'. -- Mindgame123 05:35, 3 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I agree. This text was inherited from an earlier edit. -- Jcandy 06:09, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

PIC is widely used in fluid simulation in the visual effects industry. This might provide some more relatable examples. Jawa0 (talk) 03:00, 9 October 2018 (UTC)