Daring to think of the impossible: The story of Vlasiator

Vlasiator is the world’s first global Eulerian hybrid-Vlasov simulation code, going beyond magnetohydrodynamics in the solar wind—magnetosphere—ionosphere system. This paper gives the story of Vlasiator. An important enabler of Vlasiator is the rapid increase of computational resources over the last...

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Main Author: Minna Palmroth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspas.2022.952248/full