@inproceedings{oai:jaxa.repo.nii.ac.jp:00005121,
 author = {臼井, 英之 and 沼波, 政倫 and 森高, 外征雄 and 梶村, 好宏 and 篠原, 育 and 中村, 雅夫 and 松本, 正晴 and 上田, 裕子 and Usui, Hideyuki and Nunami, Masanori and Moritaka, Toseo and Kajimura, Yoshihiro and Shinohara, Iku and Nakamura, Masao and Matsumoto, Masaharu and Ueda, Hiroko},
 book = {宇宙航空研究開発機構特別資料: 第6回「宇宙環境シンポジウム」講演論文集, JAXA Special Publication: Proceedings of the 6th Spacecraft Enivironment Symposium},
 month = {Feb},
 note = {第6回宇宙環境シンポジウム (2009年2月29日-30日. 北九州国際会議場), 6th Spacecraft Enivironment Symposium (February 29-30, 2009. Kitakyushu International Conference Center), Magneto Plasma Sail (MPS) is proposed as one of the innovative interplanetary flight systems. The propulsion of MPS is obtained as a result of multi-scale kinetic interactions between the solar wind plasma and a small-scale artificial magnetosphere created around the spacecraft. In the investigation of the multi-scale plasma interactions in association with MPS, plasma particle simulation can be a powerful tool. However, it is difficult to handle the multi-scale phenomena with the conventional particle simulation which adopts uniform spatial grid system. To conquer this difficulty we will establish the foundation and the methodology for the multi-scale plasma particle simulations by combining Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) and Particle-In-Cell (PIC) methods. In the new AMR-PIC code, we introduced the fully threaded tree (FTT) structure for the AMR scheme. In the FTT, a hierarchical grid system is maintained all by pointers and each cell is treated as an independent unit organized in a refinement tree structure rather than conventional element of arrays. Each particle also has a pointer for the next particle located in the same cell. In the parallelization of the code, we adopt domain-decomposition and assign each sub-domain to each processor. To keep the load balancing between processors, the partitioning of sub-domains is done by using the Morton ordering method which is one of the space filling curves. We modified the method so that the load of the particle calculation is considered in the sub-domain partitioning. In parallel to the tool development, we focus on the quantitative evaluation of the MPS thrust by performing Particle-In-Cell(PIC) simulations in which plasma kinetics are included. We will show some preliminary results on the magnetic field inflation by plasma injection from the spacecraft which is necessary to obtain the larger interaction area with the solar wind., 形態: カラー図版あり, Physical characteristics: Original contains color illustrations, This report is supported by the JST/CREST.--Actnowledgement, 資料番号: AA0064542004, レポート番号: JAXA-SP-09-006},
 publisher = {宇宙航空研究開発機構, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)},
 title = {Particle-In-Cell Simulations on the interactions between space plasma and advanced propulsion system},
 volume = {JAXA-SP-09-006},
 year = {2010}
}