About
Team
Struphy is developed at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, with contributions from researchers and students at several institutions. This page introduces the people behind the code.
Core team
The maintainers and founding developers, as listed in the project's README.
Florian Holderied
Founding developer
Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics / Technical University of Munich
Contributors
Developers with a substantial, sustained history of commits to the codebase, in addition to the core team above.
- Dominik Bell
- Valentin Carlier
- Tin Kei Cheng
- Florian Hindenlang
- Yingzhe Li
- Byung Kyu Na
- Ahmed Ratnani
This list is necessarily incomplete — see the full contributor history on GitHub for everyone who has helped build Struphy.
Selected publications
Research behind Struphy's structure-preserving numerical methods.
- D. Bell, M.C. Pinto, S. Possanner, E. Sonnendrücker, “The linearized Vlasov–Maxwell system as a Hamiltonian system”, Journal of Computational Physics, Volume 555, 114765 (2026).
- V. Carlier, M.C. Pinto, “Variational discretizations of ideal magnetohydrodynamics in smooth regime using structure-preserving finite elements”, Journal of Computational Physics, Volume 523, 113647 (2025).
- Y. Li, M.C. Pinto, F. Holderied, S. Possanner, E. Sonnendrücker, “Geometric Particle-In-Cell discretizations of a plasma hybrid model with kinetic ions and mass-less fluid electrons”, Journal of Computational Physics 498, 112671 (2023).
- S. Possanner, F. Holderied, Y. Li, B.-K. Na, D. Bell, S. Hadjout, Y. Güçlü, “High-Order Structure-Preserving Algorithms for Plasma Hybrid Models”, International Conference on Geometric Science of Information, 263–271, Springer Nature Switzerland (2023).
See the citation page for how to cite the Struphy software itself.