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Limace.jl: A Julia package to compute hydromagnetic modes in spherical domains

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Hydromagnetic modes in spherical domains are relevant to the liquid cores of planets, moons or stars, as well as rotating fluid dynamics experiments.These modes are solutions to the linearized rotating magnetohydrodynamic equations that govern electrically conducting fluids under rapid rotation.Limace.jl is a package written in the Julia programming language (Bezanson et al., 2017), based on Galerkin projections of the governing equations onto trial vectors of the velocity and magnetic field.It aims to facilitate the calculation of modes in flexible setups with a high-level interface, whilst remaining computationally performant enough to tackle relevant physical parameters.

Source: The Journal of Open Source Software

DOI: 10.21105/joss.07593

Author: Felix Gerick

Institutions: Institut de physique du globe de Paris, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Centre National d'Études Spatiales

Language: English

Topic: Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies

Subfield: Molecular Biology

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: H2020 European Research Council

Award: Probing the deep Earth's interior by synergistic use of observations of the magnetic and gravity fields, and of the rotation of the Earth.