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As he goes thru the modelling he outlines:
"5.4 Issues in Simulating Cosmic Phenomena:
- boundary conditions;
- relativity;
- compression of time scales;
- collisions."
then he goes on to:
"-Gravitation
- Scaling Laws - the scaling of plasma physics on cosmical and laboratory scales generally involves estimates of diffusion in plasma, inertia forces acting on the currents, the Coriolis force, the gravitational force, the centrifugal force, and the j x B electromagnetic force …"
Then he goes on about needed tera-flop computers to run the simulations, distributed computing, modular code design, numerical modelling platforms, then he dives off into computer designs vs power, etc.
There seems to be six references in the "References" section to Astrophys, Space Sci, some Soviet Phys publications, heaps of iEEE Plasma Science references, Journal of Phys, etc.
A total of about 38 references in all.
And that's it.
Hmm .. he's trying to build a computer based model of plasmas in space.
Err…. yes … there are heaps of computer based models in the Astro Physics world. Nothing new ..
The conclusion is probably more intersting than this one.
Might skip to the end of paper #3.
Cheers
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