Progress in Mesh-Free Plasma Simulation With Parallel Tree Codes

The recent developments in mesh-free plasma modeling using parallel tree codes are described, covering the algorithmic and performance issues and how to apply this technique to multidimensional electrostatic plasma problems. Examples of the simulations of the ion acceleration by high-intensity lasers, heating, and the dynamics of the nanostructured targets, as well as more recent applications of this technique to the simulations of edge plasmas in tokamaks and mesh-free magnetoinductive models, are given.