This is a project which is currently making use of HPC facilities at Newcastle University. It is active.
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This project will use an anelastic computational MHD model to simulate dynamo action driven by magnetic buoyancy in the solar interior. The computational domain will be a spherical shell, within which a forced shear flow will generate strong toroidal magnetic field in a manner that can yield a solar-like, migratory dynamo.
This project will use the publicly-available, anelastic MHD code MagIC (https://magic-sph.github.io/), which is written in Fortran and parallelised using MPI and OpenMP. This is a pseudo-spectral code that uses radial Chebyshev polynomials and spherical harmonics to represent fields in a spherical shell domain. Standard Python libraries will be used for post-processing of data.