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12th SPINE Meeting: Announcement and call for papers ESA-ESTEC, 7 February 2008, The Netherlands
Introduction
| Spacecraft Plasma Interactions Network in Europe (SPINE) | Image of the Day |
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| The objective of this network is to share resources and to co-ordinate efforts in all domains related to the interaction of Spacecraft with the space plasma, including spacecraft charging. The creation of this network and its primary objectives have been decided during a Round Table held on 24-2-2000 at ESTEC. The aim of the SPINE Web site is to become an advanced platform for information exchange and collaborative work, a kind of Virtual Laboratory dedicated to studies of spacecraft-plasma interactions. Please use the SPINE Community’s Virtual Lab to share and exchange knowledge, data, results and tools related to spacecraft-plasma interactions. |
News
- A Young Graduate Trainee position is available in ESTEC TEC-EES (Space Environment and Effects) section. Closing date 13th December. Please see http://www.esa.int/hr/YGT/ESTEC_024.pdf for details of this position. See also http://www.esa.int/hr/ygt.htm for other YGT positions.
- Procedings now available for the 15th SPINE MEETING -28/29 September 2009, ONERA, Toulouse, France
New SPIS 4.0.00 Stable Release just released!
Change log and major improvements (2009/10/17)- Major numerical improvements in SPIS-NUM are:
- Implicit solver for spacecraft solver with automatic time step adjustment
- Capability to model charging in GEO (implicit circuit solver, backtracking...)
- Muti-zone modelling (one dense region with hybrid PIC-Boltzmann modelling, one lower density "beam-like" region with PIC-PIC modelling)
- A few other smaller improvements: exact Csat computation (instead of being user-defined), Dirchlet conditions possible at external boundary, beta factor for Fowler-Nordheim emission, possibility to introduce generic surface interactors (with a basic cathode spot implemented), scenarios like potential sweeping (already in v3.7)...
- Major SPIS-UI improvements:
- Full migration to VTK 5.0
- Full migration to JVM 1.6
- Full migration to Jython 2.2
- Migration to Gmsh 2.xxx (since SPIS 3.7 RC9)
- Introduction of an export module of DataField to raw based ASCII formats. This contribution has been funded by the LATMOS UVSQ-CNRS/INSU-UPMC laboratory, France and has been supervised by Jean-Jacques Berthelier. We would like thanks Richard Marchand of University of Alberta for his advices.
- Introduction of JyConsole 1.4
- Update and improvement of launching scripts.
- Modularisation of components being run as standalone application as well SPIS-UI tasks.
- Improvement of the self-consistency of the persistence scheme (saving the mesh from the memory foot-print)
- Improvement of the portability (Mac OSX, Linux full support of 32/64 bits)
- Improvement of ASCII export for time series data
- Improvement / bug fixes in the bacth simulation deamon writer
- Several bugs fixes
- Several performances improvements
- Documentation update
- Various code clean-up
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For access to the software, please see the download area.
12th SPINE Meeting: Announcement and call for papers ESA-ESTEC, 7 February 2008, The Netherlands
SPIS 3.6 released! Get the software.
SPIS course, trainings and examples
The SPINE Community’s Virtual Lab hosts:
- The SPIS Project, for Spacecraft Plasma Interaction System, a software toolkit of 2nd generation for spacecraft-plasma interactions modelling, able to model a large set of phenomenon relative to spacecraft charging and based on a 3D unstructured mesh.
- The PicUp3D Project, the first generation free spacecraft plasma interaction modelling tool.
- Forums and exchange areas for the space plasma communities.
- Specialised working groups on:
- Sheaths modelling
- Artificial plasmas modelling (electric propulsion, etc ....)
- Surface-plasma interactions (secondary emission, photo-emission, conductivities, etc ....)