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[Submitted on 25 Jun 2014]

Title:A Robust Method for Handling Low Density Regions in Hybrid Simulations for Collisionless Plasmas

Authors:Takanobu Amano, Katsuaki Higashimori, Keisuke Shirakawa
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Abstract:A robust method to handle vacuum and near vacuum regions in hybrid simulations for space and astrophysical plasmas is presented. The conventional hybrid simulation model dealing with kinetic ions and a massless charge-neutralizing electron fluid is known to be susceptible to numerical instability due to divergence of the whistler-mode wave dispersion, as well as division-by-density operation in regions of low density. Consequently, a pure vacuum region is not allowed to exist in the simulation domain unless some ad hoc technique is used. To resolve this difficulty, an alternative way to introduce finite electron inertia effect is proposed. Contrary to the conventional method, the proposed one introduces a correction to the electric field rather than the magnetic field. It is shown that the generalized Ohm's law correctly reduces to Laplace's equation in a vacuum which therefore does not involve any numerical problems. In addition, a variable ion-to-electron mass ratio is introduced to reduce the phase velocity of high frequency whistler waves at low density regions so that the stability condition is always satisfied. It is demonstrated that the proposed model is able to handle near vacuum regions generated as a result of nonlinear self-consistent development of the system, as well as pure vacuum regions set up at the initial condition, without losing the advantages of the standard hybrid code.
Comments: 19 pages, 9 figures, accepted by Journal of Computational Physics
Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph); Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
Cite as: arXiv:1406.6613 [physics.plasm-ph]
  (or arXiv:1406.6613v1 [physics.plasm-ph] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1406.6613
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Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2014.06.048
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From: Takanobu Amano [view email]
[v1] Wed, 25 Jun 2014 15:27:27 UTC (1,328 KB)
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