Magnetosphere Research

Members of the space environment modeling group at the University of Washington use 3D multi-fluid modeling to simulate the solar wind interaction with the terrestrial and many other planetary magnetospheres throughout the solar system.


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Flux rope generation

On Mercuryread more →

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Modeling

Of the terrestrial magnetosphereread more →


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Modeling the Solar Wind Interactions

with magnetic anomalies on Marsread more →

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Jupiter-lo

Coupled modelread more →

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Ganymede's UV Aurora

And interpretation of ion energy spectrogramsread more →

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Centrifugal Interchange

On Saturnread more →

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Asymmetric Ion Pickup

On Titanread more →

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Coupled Simulations

Of Saturn's Magnetosphere and Titanread more →

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Multi-fluid Comparison

to hybrid simulations at Plutoread more →

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Mini-Magnetospheres

On the Moonread more →