A new 3D parallel multi-species hybrid model for Solar Wind - Mars interaction

Sebastien Hess (1) , Ronan Modolo (1) , Marco Mancini (1) , François Leblanc (1) , Jean-Yves Chaufray (2) , Manabu Yagi (1) , R. Allioux (3) , Emilie Richer (4) , Gérard Chanteur (4)

1 HELIOS - LATMOS
2 LMD - Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539)
3 IRAP - Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie
4 LPP - Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas

In the frame of the HELIOSARES project (PI F. Leblanc) dedicated to the modeling of Mars environment (neutral and charged species) from the lower atmosphere to the solar wind, a modeling effort of parallelization has been conducted. Such model allows having a kinetic description of the ions with a rather improved spatial resolution (smaller than the ion inertial less). The latest progresses are reported and simulations results with a uniform spatial resolution of 75 km are presented.

Domaines: Physique des plasmas [physics.plasm-ph]; Astrophysique [astro-ph]

Sebastien Hess, Ronan Modolo, Marco Mancini, François Leblanc, Jean-Yves Chaufray, et al.. A new 3D parallel multi-species hybrid model for Solar Wind - Mars interaction. EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, 2011, Nantes, France. pp.EPSC-DPS2011-770, 2011. ⟨hal-02860534⟩