Space Plasma Simulations with Vlasiator on LUMI Supercomputer

Overview

Vlasiator is the state-of-the-art hybrid-Vlasov simulation for ion-scale physics in a global magnetospheric setting. It is the only 6D hybrid-Vlasov code capable of simulating the Earth’s magnetosphere. In Vlasiator, ions are represented as velocity distribution functions, while electrons are a massless charge-neutralizing fluid, enabling a self-consistent global plasma simulation that can describe multi-temperature plasmas to resolve non-MHD processes that currently cannot be self-consistently described by the existing global space weather simulations. The novelty is that by modelling ions as velocity distribution functions the outcome will be numerically noiseless. Due to the multi-dimensional approach at ion scales, Vlasiator’s computational challenges are immense. Advanced HPC techniques will be adopted using tens of thousands of cores to perform massively parallel computations.

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