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New Horizons Mission Support |
| Community-wide effort to provide solar wind modeling support for the New Horizons Flyby: | |
| "New Horizons Flyby Modeling Challenge" |
This site presents initial results from computer simulations of the near Pluto Solar wind environment for the time period of the New Horizons Spacecraft flyby. Results are presented from models that range from a simpler 1D gasdynamic approximation, a 2D magnetohydrodynamic(MHD) simulation that includes passage of nearly 120 interplanetary coronal mass ejections, and 3D multi-fluid and 3D multiscale Fluid-Kinetic MHD models. Click on the caption in the slider for detailed results from and information about each model.
Current contributors include:
Project facilitator: Peter MacNeice. Please contact Peter MacNeice or Leila Mays if you would like to join the challenge.
Modeling Results for the New Horizons Flyby Modeling Challenge
Under construction, results are continually posted as they are received, please check back regularly for new results.
1D Models
Results from a 1D gasdynamic model from Peter MacNeice and Nathan Schwadron
(details here)
3D Models
Preliminary Multi-Scale Fluid-Kinetic Simulation Suite (MS-FLUKSS) 3D MHD results from Tae Kim and Nikolai Pogorelov
(details here)
2.5D MHD Models
Preliminary SWMF-OH 2.5D MHD Model Results from Bertalan Zieger, Merav Opher, Gabor Toth and Tamas Gombosi
(details here)
3D New Horizons ENLIL Simulations from the CCMC Runs-on-Request-Database:
| Event Date | Run Number | Key Words | Model Type | Model | Model Version | Carrington Rotation Start | Carrington Rotation End | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Modeled Run | Leila_Mays_111215_SH_1 | New Horizons reg5med2 donkiv500w25 v3 20150201-20150431 | Heliosphere | ENLIL | 2.8 | 2159 | 2159 | -- | -- |
| Modeled Run | Leila_Mays_110815_SH_1 | New Horizons reg5med1 donkiv500w25 v3 20150201-20150431 | Heliosphere | ENLIL | 2.8 | 2159 | 2159 | -- | -- |
| Modeled Run | Leila_Mays_100215_SH_1 | New Horizons reg40low1 donkiv500w25 v1 20150201-20150901 | Heliosphere | ENLIL | 2.8 | 2159 | 2159 | -- | -- |
| Modeled Run | Leila_Mays_121215_SH_1 | New Horizons reg40low1 donkiv500w25v4 v4 20151014-20150414 | Heliosphere | ENLIL | 2.8e | 2155 | 2155 | -- | -- |
| Modeled Run | Leila_Mays_100116_SH_1 | New Horizons reg40low1 donkiv500w25v5 v5 20141014-20150414 | Heliosphere | ENLIL | 2.8f | 0 | 0 | -- | -- |
Visualization of 3D ENLIL simulation from Tom Bridgman (NASA Scientific Visualizatio Studio)
