Towards the study of the Solar wind Effects on the Magnetosphere using Fully Kinetic Simulations
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Towards the study of the Solar wind Effects on the
Magnetosphere using Fully Kinetic Simulations
Jorge AMAYA1, Jan DECA1, Stefano Markidis2, Andrei DIVIN3, Bertrand Lembège4, Giovanni LAPENTA1
1CPA, KULeuven, Belgium2KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
3Institutet för rymdfysik, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden4LATMOS, CNRS, France
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EU FP7 projects
• SWIFF: Space Weather Integrated Forecasting Framework (n° 263340)
• eHeroes: Environment for Human Exploration and RObotic Experimentation in Space (n° 284461)
• DEEP: Dynamical Exascale Entry Platform (n° 287530)
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Motivation: Space Weather
• Complex plasma physics
• From fluid to kinetic effects
• From electron to planetary scales
• Highly coupled phenomena
• Effects on human and robotic space exploration
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Different time and space scales
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Numerical methods
[2] N. Omidi et al., Advances in Space Research, Volume 38, Issue 4, 2006
[3] Toseo Moritaka, et al., Phys. Plasmas 19, 032111, 2012
[1] University of Alberta web page.
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Fully kinetic
Density Magnetic field
[1] S. Baraka and L. Ben-Jaffel, Ann. Geophys., 29, 2011
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PiC simulations at ion-scales
•Adaptative mesh refinemet.
•Ion-scale simulation: applications to spacecraft shielding and magnetic sails
[1] M. Matsumoto et al., Plasma and Fusion Research, 8, 2013
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Global 3D PiC[1] Cai et al., Earth Planets Space, 53, 2001
Global magnetospheric
3D topology
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Hybrid codes: Mercury magnetosphere
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Hybrid-Vlasov codes•Solving above ion scales.
•Capture of wave propagation in the foreshock and the magnetosheat.
•Resolution in spatial (2D) and velocity (3D) spaces.
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Tha Particle-in-Cell method
Interpolation
PARTICLES FIELDS
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Implicit equations
Stability condition:
Fields:
Particles:
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Advantages of the iPic3D code
• Self-consistent.
• Implicit methods allow a wider range of time and space scales
• Highly scalable: improves with technology which makes it perfect for ExaScale systems
• Simple enough to port to new architectures
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Disadvantages of the PiC method
• Particle noise: requires higher resolution.
• Boundary conditions: requires improved numerical methods.
• CPU cost: requires to work on new architectures and better algorithms.
• Problem size: coupled and multi-domain algorithms are being developed.
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Current objectives
• Simulation parametters closer to the actual physics.
• 3 types of simulations:
- A. 2D Noon-Midnight meridian plane
- B. 2D Equatorial plane
- C. 3D
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A. Noon-midnight meridian plane
Reconnection
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A. Noon-midnight meridian plane
Solar wind
IMF
Magnetic dipole Particle absorbing body
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A. Noon-meridianidnight meridian plane
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B. Equatorial plane
[1] T. D. Phan and G. Paschmann, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 7801, (1996).
Diffusion effects at the boundary layer
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B. Equatorial plane
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B. Equatorial plane: density
Simulation initialization 15 000 cycles,7 hours,
1024 processors, 1.7 Mcells, 88.5 Mparticles
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B. simulation parametters
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Comparison against an hybrid code
[1] J. Paral and R. Rankin, Nature Communications, 4 - 1645, April, 2013
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B. Across the shock
• 4 zones:
• Interplanetary plasma
• Magnetosheat
• Diffusion zone
• Magnetosphere
• Top: ion density
• Bottom: ion density and magnitude of the magnetic field
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B. Dusk density profiles
• Density variation across the magnetosheat
• Sharp density drop across the magnetopause
• Instabilities in the plasma flow at the magnetopause
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C. Future work
• Higher resolution
• Bigger planet
• Fully implicit
• Computations with up to 100 000 CPU cores
• Improvement of boundary conditions
• 3D system
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Conclusions
• PiC methods are very sensitive to the thermal velocities imposed.
• Global simulations with electron-scale resolutions are yet computationally expensive.
• Boundary conditions are a major issue.
• We are pushing the code to the current computational limits.
• However we are currently performing simulations with parametters very close to those measured in-situ.
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Towards the study of the Solar wind Effects on the
Magnetosphere using Fully Kinetic Simulations
Jorge AMAYA1, Jan DECA1, Stefano Markidis2, Andrei DIVIN3, Bertrand Lembège4, Giovanni LAPENTA1
1CPA, KULeuven, Belgium2KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
3Institutet för rymdfysik, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden4LATMOS, CNRS, France
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The iPiC3D code
(x, y, z) (u, v, w)
(Bx, By, Bz)
(Ex, Ey, Ez)
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Moments
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Field to particle interpolation
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Implicit particle transport
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Implicit Maxwell equations
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Second order Maxwell
Taylor series expansion of the shape function:
Applying to the moments gives a linear interpolation:
{where
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Final form for the E field equation
Stability condition: