著者

Masaharu MATSUMOTO Hideyuki USUI Masanori NUNAMI Masao NAKAMURA Iku SHINOHARA

出版者

The Japan Society of Plasma Science and Nuclear Fusion Research

雑誌

Plasma and Fusion Research (ISSN:18806821)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.8, pp.2406132, 2013-09-26 (Released:2015-06-13)

参考文献数

9

被引用文献数

2 3

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A parallelized two-dimensional full particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations with an adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) technique for the interaction of solar wind with kinetic scale magnetosphere around a magnetic sail are conducted. For multi-scale simulations, the newly developed AMR-PIC code has a method to modify the grid size and time step interval of computational domain in the midst of the simulations temporally and locally. In the simulation results under the typical working condition introducing the AMR technique, it is shown that the direction of interplanetary magnetic field depend strongly on the magnetospheric configuration including electron dynamics and Alfven bow shock structure. Although more validation studies are needed, the AMR-PIC code shows the worth of development for multi-scale simulations.