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Adopted FY2005

Shuji OGATA

Atushi OSHIYAMA

Masaki SATOH

Toshikazu TAKADA

Keiko TAKAHASHI

Seiichiro TEN-NO

Kimihiko HIRAO

Mitsuhiro MATSU'URA

Adopted FY2006

Masataka NAGAOKA

Hiroyasu HASUMI

Masahiko MACHIDA

Masuhiro MIKAMI

Keiji MOROKUMA

Yasuhiro YAMANAKA

Ryoichi YAMAMOTO

Adopted FY2007

Yuriko AOKIi

Masatoshi IMADA

Hideyuki USUI

Akio KITAO

Hiroshi NAKATSUJI

Shinobu YOSHIMURA

Research Directors / Research Themes

Multi-scale plasma particle simulation for the development of interplanetary flight system

Hideyuki Usui

Hideyuki Usui

Associate Professor, Kyoto University

Outline of Research Themes
    

Magneto Plasma Sail (MPS) is proposed as one of the innovative interplanetary flight systems. The propulsion of MPS is obtained as a result of multi-scale kinetic interactions between the solar wind plasma and the small-scale artificial magnetosphere created around the spacecraft. To examine the multi-scale plasma interactions in association with MPS, we will establish the foundation and the methodology for the multi-scale plasma particle simulations by combining Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) and Particle-In-Cell (PIC) methods.

 

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