Project Contacts

For further information about this project, please contact:

• Dr Celine Guervilly (celine.guervilly@newcastle.ac.uk)
• Dr Yue-Kin Tsang (yue-kin.tsang@newcastle.ac.uk)

Project Description

This project studies the fluid dynamics inside planetary cores and the generation of magnetic fields.

Software or Compute Methods

Open-source code XSHELLS (https://nschaeff.bitbucket.io/xshells/). XSHELLS is a pseudo-spectral code that solves the MHD equations for a Boussinesq fluid in 3D spherical geometry. The code uses a finite difference decomposition in radius and spherical harmonics. The code is parallelised in radial direction using MPI. Shared memory parallelism in the angular directions is implemented using OpenMP.