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http://dx.doi.org/10.5303/JKAS.2007.40.4.165

REMOTE NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF THE INTERACTION OF HIGH VELOCITY CLOUDS WITH RANDOM MAGNETIC FIELDS  

Santikkan, Alfredo (Computo Aplicado-DGSCA, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)
Hernandez-Cervantes, Liliana (Instituto de Astronomia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)
Gonzalez-Ponce, Alejandro (Instituto de Ecologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)
Kim, Jong-Soo (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute)
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Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society / v.40, no.4, 2007 , pp. 165-169 More about this Journal
Abstract
The numerical simulations associated with the interaction of High Velocity Clouds (HVC) with the Magnetized Galactic Interstellar Medium (ISM) are a powerful tool to describe the evolution of the interaction of these objects in our Galaxy. In this work we present a new project referred to as Theoretical Virtual i Observatories. It is oriented toward to perform numerical simulations in real time through a Web page. This is a powerful astrophysical computational tool that consists of an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) and a database produced by numerical calculations. In this Website the user can make use of the existing numerical simulations from the database or run a new simulation introducing initial conditions such as temperatures, densities, velocities, and magnetic field intensities for both the ISM and HVC. The prototype is programmed using Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP), based on the open source philosophy. All simulations were performed with the MHD code ZEUS-3D, which solves the ideal MHD equations by finite differences on a fixed Eulerian mesh. Finally, we present typical results that can be obtained with this tool.
Keywords
ISM: clouds; ISM: magnetic fields; ISM-MHD;
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