Principal Investigator:
Luís O. Silva
, GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Lisboa (Portugal)
HPC Platform used:
JUQUEEN of JSC
Local Project ID:
PRA_2015
A team of researchers has performed the largest simulations of unmagnetised shocks driven in astrophysical conditions to determine the parameters required to excite shocks in the laboratory, and studied the set of complex and nonlinear phenomena involved in these scenarios, such as magnetic field generation and particle acceleration. The simulations have been performed with the state-of-the-art particle-in-cell code OSIRIS.
