The Laboratory of Plasma Physics, Paris, France, is opening a two-years postdoctoral position to work on the development of large scale fluid/Particle-in-Cell numerical modeling of the Earth’s magnetosphere.
Large scale space plasma systems are challenging to model numerically due to the collisionless nature of the plasma dynamics. Typically, computational load reduction in multiscale systems is achieved either through adaptive mesh refinement or by simplifying the physical models, often replacing kinetic equations with fluid approximations. Our approach, called Adaptive Mesh and Model Refinement (AM2R) integrates these strategies into a single code, allowing the finest physics and resolutions to be employed only where and when assessed necessary.
As a postdoctoral fellow, you will join a small happy development team composed of two permanent researchers, a HPC engineer, a PhD student, and contribute to the development of the code PHARE. More specifically, you will add the planetary magnetic field and boundary conditions as well as those for the solar wind, in the finite-volume Godunov Hall-MHD part of the code and participate to the first global magnetosphere models combining this Hall-MHD solver with the already existing AMR Hybrid Particle-In-Cell one.
More information can be found at https://gist.github.com/nicolasaunai/05438b042df01d8570f7e22c2c76d553
(Transmis par Nicolas Aunai)