Update 8/10

Charge Exchange

Postprocessing done on the collisional ionization runs. Solar wind run is going well:

https://www.pas.rochester.edu/~adebrech/ChargeExchange/HD209458b_charge_exchange_solar_0227.png

MHD

+----------------------+------------+--------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                      |            |              | Strong Field (4.5x10^1^ G)                                                                                 | Weak Field (4.5x10^-4^ G)                                                                                                                                                      |
+======================+============+==============+============================================================================================================+================================================================================================================================================================================+
|                      |            | No wind      | Immediate pressure protections, but they slowly decrease. By the time the run ended (frame 10), none left. | Runs well. Slight acceleration, moving at max of ~5 km/s at 21 frames. Possibly from boundary condition?                                                                       |
|                      | No gravity +--------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                      |            | Stellar wind |                                                                                                            |                                                                                                                                                                                |
| Non-corotating frame +------------+--------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                      |            | No wind      | Pressure protections all over the place after a few frames, but they also disappear just before frame 10.  | Runs well. Accelerates toward star, bending field lines. 20 frames.                                                                                                            |
|                      | Gravity    +--------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                      |            | Stellar wind |                                                                                                            |                                                                                                                                                                                |
+----------------------+------------+--------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                      |            | No wind      | Pressure protections after a few steps, still many at frame 9.8 (furthest it got).                         | Runs well. Accelerates as expected, fixed at left & top because of boundary condition. 20 frames.                                                                              |
|                      | No gravity +--------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                      |            | Stellar wind |                                                                                                            |                                                                                                                                                                                |
| Corotating frame     +------------+--------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                      |            | No wind      | Pressure protections after a few steps. Only 1 frame.                                                      | Runs well. Accelerates outward (I think as expected? Orbital velocity of planet is higher than Keplerian velocity of ambient). 4 frames (for some reason only ran on 4 cores). |
|                      | Gravity    +--------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                      |            | Stellar wind |                                                                                                            |                                                                                                                                                                                |
+----------------------+------------+--------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

There still appears to be a problem with the stellar wind being injected. I'll check it without fields to make sure I can get it working properly. Also, the strong wind runs are looking suspiciously similar. I may run clean runs of everything for comparison purposes.

Run 1

https://www.pas.rochester.edu/~adebrech/MHD/MHD_test_1.png

https://www.pas.rochester.edu/~adebrech/MHD/MHD_test_1_B.png

Here are the last pressure protections from the simplest run:

q=      0.73E-04    -0.11E-01     0.37E-03     0.12E-01     0.39E+01     0.79E+00    -0.25E-01    -0.18E+01     0.00E+00     0.36E-04
Info%q=      0.73E-04    -0.11E-01     0.37E-03     0.12E-01     0.39E+01     0.79E+00    -0.25E-01    -0.18E+01     0.00E+00     0.36E-04
pos=       0.51875000E+02      0.11250000E+01      0.11125000E+02
i,j,k,mx,my,mz    20    45    25    20    53    20
Info%level     0
tnow=       0.10220561E+01
 Temp is   -17241.5756049894     
q=      0.73E-04    -0.11E-01     0.37E-03     0.12E-01     0.39E+01     0.79E+00    -0.25E-01    -0.18E+01     0.00E+00     0.36E-04
Info%q=      0.73E-04    -0.11E-01     0.37E-03     0.12E-01     0.39E+01     0.79E+00    -0.25E-01    -0.18E+01     0.00E+00     0.36E-04
pos=       0.51875000E+02      0.11250000E+01      0.11125000E+02
i,j,k,mx,my,mz     0    45    25    20    53    20
Info%level     0
tnow=       0.10220561E+01
 Temp is   -17241.5756071120     
 Pressure protection encountered at           20          45          25
 Pressure protection encountered at            0          45          25

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