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ZHANG Man, ZHOU Yufen. Three-dimensional Steady State Interplanetary Solar Wind Simulation in Spherical Coordinates with a Six-component Grid[J]. Chinese Journal of Space Science, 2014, 34(6): 773-784. doi: 10.11728/cjss2014.06.773
Citation: ZHANG Man, ZHOU Yufen. Three-dimensional Steady State Interplanetary Solar Wind Simulation in Spherical Coordinates with a Six-component Grid[J]. Chinese Journal of Space Science, 2014, 34(6): 773-784. doi: 10.11728/cjss2014.06.773
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Three-dimensional Steady State Interplanetary Solar Wind Simulation in Spherical Coordinates with a Six-component Grid

doi: 10.11728/cjss2014.06.773 cstr: 32142.14.cjss2014.06.773
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    State Key Laboratory of Space Weather, Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190

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    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049

  • Received Date: 2013-12-04
  • Rev Recd Date: 2014-03-07
  • Publish Date: 2014-11-15
    Abstract
  • In this paper, the MacCormack scheme is applied to the time-independent Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations in spherical coordinates with a six-component grid for the three-dimensional interplanetary solar wind simulation. The use of six-component grid system can better body-fit the spherical shell domain of interplanetary space as well as avoid the singularity and the mesh convergence near the poles. The radial coordinate is treated as a time-like coordinate, thus can significantly reduce the computational time. The inner boundary distribution is determined by the empirical relations and observation. Five kinds of inner boundary conditions used formerly by MHD modelers are comparatively used to simulate the Carrington Rotation (CR) 1922 solar wind bac kground. The numerical results show that all these boundary conditions can produce consistent large-scale solar wind structure with the observation, and better result in agreement with observations can be achieved when adopting the following inner boundary condition: the radial speed is obtained by the empirical relationship proposed by McGregor et al. in 2011, the magnetic field is obtained by Horizontal Current Current Sheet (HCCS) model, an assumption of constant momentum flux is used to derive number density, and temperature is chosen to assure that the total pressure is uniform at the inner boundary.

     

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