Improving the Physical Accuracy of 3D Particle-In-Cell Simulation of the Plasma Surrounding an Ablating Meteoroid via Simulated Ablation Physics

Hedges, Trevor

Improving the Physical Accuracy of 3D Particle-In-Cell Simulation of the Plasma Surrounding an Ablating Meteoroid via Simulated Ablation Physics

Trevor Hedges¹, Joseph Ferguson², Nicolas Lee¹, Sigrid Close¹, Meers M Oppenheim³ and Glenn Sugar⁴, (1)Stanford University, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford, United States, (2)Stanford University, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford, United States, (3)Boston University, Center for Space Physics, Boston, MA, United States, (4)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, United States