Journal article
PLUME: Plasma in a Linear Uniform Magnetized Environment
Research notes of the AAS, Vol.9(4), 102
04/30/2025
DOI: 10.3847/2515-5172/add1c2
Abstract
Characterizing waves in collisionless or weakly collisional magnetized plasmas is an essential task for quantifying a wide variety of physical processes in space and astrophysical systems. The linearized Vlasov–Maxwell system of equations is typically an accurate model for such characterization, and many numerical methods for solving the Vlasov–Maxwell dispersion relation derived from those equations have been implemented. The Plasma in a Linear Uniform Magnetized Environment (PLUME) code follows the derivation of the linear Vlasov–Maxwell dispersion relation presented in Chapter 10 of T. H. Stix, and is built on an implementation first presented in E. Quataert. A simplified version of PLUME was described in K. G. Klein & G. G. Howes, but improvements to the code in intervening years necessitate an updated description. In this note, we specify the dimensionless normalization of the code and other pertinent details of the PLUME dispersion relation solver. The code is publicly available for download (codebase: https://github.com/kgklein/PLUME).
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- PLUME: Plasma in a Linear Uniform Magnetized Environment
- Creators
- Kristopher G. Klein - University of ArizonaGregory G. Howes - University of Iowa Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA 52242, USACollin R. Brown - Naval Research Laboratory Plasma Physics Division
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Research notes of the AAS, Vol.9(4), 102
- DOI
- 10.3847/2515-5172/add1c2
- ISSN
- 2515-5172
- eISSN
- 2515-5172
- Publisher
- The American Astronomical Society
- Number of pages
- 0
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/30/2025
- Academic Unit
- Physics and Astronomy
- Record Identifier
- 9984820563702771
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