What is SPIS?

SPIS stands for Spacecraft Plasma Interaction System. SPIS project aims at developing a software toolkit for spacecraft-plasma interactions modelling. This software development is co-ordinated by ESA contractors (ONERA in consortium with Artenum and University Paris 7), who thus develop the software framework. The numerical routines (solvers, specific tools...) are implemented or procured in collaboration between SPINE community and the contractors

What is the perimeter of the physics to be modelled ?

There is no a priori limitation in the range of physics that may be modelled by the developped software, within spacecraft-plasma interactions. It will certainly cover:

• charging in GEO, LEO or other environments,
• natural and artificial plasmas (EP, arbitrary plasma sources...),
• surface physics: secondary emissions, photo-emission, surface and volume conductivity...
• volume physics: electrostatic, electromagnetism, kinetic od fluid description, collisions...
• multi-scale models: spacecraft, equipment, even microscopic scale for ESD modelling...

The software framework will be kept compatible with all of the requirements (in pdf) defined during 4th SPINE workshop. Only part of the routines necessary to handle these situations may be developed in a first phase, but the community effort shall later enrich the capabilities of the software.

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