If you use PICLas for your publications, please cite it.
For the general method please cite
Fasoulas, S., Munz, C.D., Pfeiffer, M., Beyer, J., Binder, T., Copplestone, S., Mirza, A., Nizenkov, P., Ortwein, P. and Reschke, W.
Combining particle-in-cell and direct simulation Monte Carlo for the simulation of reactive plasma flows.
Physics of Fluids, 31(7), (2019) p.072006.
For the high-order Maxwell DG method please cite
Munz, C.D., Auweter-Kurtz, M., Fasoulas, S., Mirza, A., Ortwein, P., Pfeiffer, M. and Stindl, T.
Coupled particle-in-cell and direct simulation Monte Carlo method for simulating reactive plasma flows.
Comptes Rendus Mécanique, 342(10-11), (2014) pp.662-670.
For the high-order Poisson DG method please cite
Pfeiffer, M., Hindenlang, F., Binder, T., Copplestone, S.M., Munz, C.D. and Fasoulas, S.
A particle-in-cell solver based on a high-order hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin spectral element method on unstructured curved meshes.
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 349, (2019) pp.149-166.
or use the following Bibtex files
@article{piclas_fasoulas,
title={Combining particle-in-cell and direct simulation Monte Carlo for the simulation of reactive plasma flows},
author={Fasoulas, Stefanos and Munz, C-D and Pfeiffer, Marcel and Beyer, Julian and Binder, Tilman and Copplestone, Stephen and Mirza, Asim and Nizenkov, Paul and Ortwein, Philip and Reschke, Wladimir},
journal={Physics of Fluids},
volume={31},
number={7},
pages={072006},
year={2019},
publisher={AIP Publishing LLC}
}
@article{piclas_munz,
title = {Coupled Particle-In-Cell and Direct Simulation Monte Carlo method for simulating reactive plasma flows},
journal = {Comptes Rendus Mécanique},
volume = {342},
number = {10},
pages = {662-670},
year = {2014},
note = {Theoretical and numerical approaches for Vlasov-maxwell equations},
issn = {1631-0721},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crme.2014.07.005},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1631072114001442},
author = {Claus-Dieter Munz and Monika Auweter-Kurtz and Stefanos Fasoulas and Asim Mirza and Philip Ortwein and Marcel Pfeiffer and Torsten Stindl},
keywords = {Particle-In-Cell, Direct Simulation Monte Carlo, Discontinuous Galerkin, High-order, Plasma physics, Boltzmann equation},
}
@article{piclas_pfeiffer,
title={A particle-in-cell solver based on a high-order hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin spectral element method on unstructured curved meshes},
author={Pfeiffer, M and Hindenlang, F and Binder, T and Copplestone, SM and Munz, C-D and Fasoulas, S},
journal={Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering},
volume={349},
pages={149--166},
year={2019},
publisher={Elsevier}
}