ASTROPHYSICS

Astrophysics

Principal Investigator: Jörg Büchner , Max-Planck-Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen

HPC Platform used: SuperMUC and SuperMUC-NG

Local Project ID: pr74vi

The hot and dilute astrophysical plasmas - from Solar to galactic scales - are inherently turbulent. The turbulence determines transport and structure formation in accretion disks, in the interstellar medium, in clusters of galaxies as well as their observable radiation. Due to its routing in microscopic kinetic processes the turbulence of astrophysical plasmas is, however, not well understood, yet. Utilizing state-of-the-art microphysics particle-in-cell codes in this project self-consistent 3D electromagnetic kinetic simulations were performed to simulate the kinetic turbulence inherently linked with two fundamental processes of energy conversion in the Universe – collisionless shock waves and magnetic reconnection.

Astrophysics

Principal Investigator: Sven Bingert , Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Göttingen (Germany)

HPC Platform used: Hermit of HLRS

Local Project ID: BRUSH

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen employed a three-dimensional numerical model on GCS supercomputer Hermit of HLRS Stuttgart to investigate the heating process of the highly structured and dynamic corona.