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| + | Leaders: ''Brian Sullivan <bsullivan [at] artemis.sr.unh.edu> and Michael Shay <shay [at] udel.edu>'' |
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| − | '''Co-chairs:''' John Dorelli (john<dot>dorelli<at>unh<dot>edu) and Michael Shay (shay<at>udel<dot>edu)
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| − | ==Goals==
| + | The CCCM Modules and Methods Focus Group has ended and published a final report in [http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/GEMstone/GEMstone_Vol20_No2.pdf GEMstone Volume 20 No.2 - December 2010]. |
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| − | The overarching goal of this focus group is to understand the physics of collisionless magnetic reconnection on magnetospheric length scales (hundreds of ion inertial lengths). To this end, we have identified several broad questions to be addressed during the course : | |
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| − | * '''Q1''': Can global resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) codes accurately model magnetospheric reconnection?
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| − | * '''Q2''': How does the physics of collisionless reconnection observed in Particle-In-Cell (PIC) simulations scale up to reality?
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| − | * '''Q3''': Can we extend global resistive MHD models to include microscale physics which is needed to accurately model reconnection?
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| − | The three questions '''Q1-Q3''' are motivated by a currently popular approach to GGCM development known as the ''MHD spine'' approach. In the MHD spine approach, a global MHD model is used as the underlying computational "spine" of the GGCM, with non-MHD physics added (e.g., via coupling with another code) in regions of the simulation domain where the MHD approximation breaks down.
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Latest revision as of 18:36, 3 June 2011
Leaders: Brian Sullivan <bsullivan [at] artemis.sr.unh.edu> and Michael Shay <shay [at] udel.edu>
The CCCM Modules and Methods Focus Group has ended and published a final report in GEMstone Volume 20 No.2 - December 2010.
