Particle In Cell Consulting LLC

Particle In Cell Consulting LLC is a small California-based company. It builds high performance simulation programs for electric propulsion plasma thrusters, plume spacecraft interactions and contamination transport. The site lists Westlake Village, California in its footer.

The company's main code is the Contamination Transport Simulation Program, called CTSP. It is a meshless, particle-based parallel code. The site says CTSP has been used on NASA and aerospace missions including MMS, GOES-R, Restore-L, TESS, ELSAH and JWST. The company uses CTSP for its own analysis work and also licenses it.

The site says CTSP can simulate rarefied flow. One example is a vacuum chamber retrofit study. Another is a direct simulation Monte Carlo study of flow around a complex object.

The company's plasma work includes the Coliseum and Draco codes. The site says the company founder was the main developer of the Draco plume code. The company also uses a 2D code called Starfish. The site says Starfish has been used to study electron mobility in Hall thrusters and ion transport in a Mars soil analyzer.

The site lists scientific computing services. These include code optimization and MPI or CUDA parallelization. The company also offers online plasma simulation courses and has written a textbook on plasma simulation.

The company works with US government, industry and academic partners. It has a blog and a newsletter that is sent about six times a year. The site lists codes, courses, publications and jobs pages.

To get started, use the contact form or the contact address on the site. The site lists a LinkedIn page and a GitHub page.