Modeling Heliophysics and Astrophysics Phenomena with a Multi-Scale Fluid-Kinetic Simulation Suite

Nikolai Pogorelov, University of Alabama, Huntsville

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Gengbin Zheng, Andriy Kot, Jing Li, Nikolai Pogorelov, Sergey Borovikov, Jacob Heerikhuisen, Igor Kryukov, Tae Kim, Matthew Bedford, Raymond Fermo, Mehmet Yalim

The objective of this project is to model challenging space physics and astrophysics problems, including the analysis of flows of magnetized, rarefied, partially-ionized plasma, where neutral atoms experience resonant charge exchange with ions. The team will model the solar wind flows in the inner and outer heliosphere and the Guitar nebula flow and compare the results with in situ measurements performed by the ACE, IBEX, STEREO, and Voyager spacecraft and remote observations from Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra. In this way the researchers will extract the fundamental physics of non-thermal plasma-neutral flows.

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