Transport and distribution of sodium ions in Mercury's magnetosphere: results from multi-fluid MHD simulations

This dataset contains VTK files of the four simulations that are presented in the paper Transport and distribution of sodium ions in Mercury’s magnetosphere: results from multi-fluid MHD simulations . The physical parameters for each of the simulations are summarized below: Sim-1: IMF = [0,0,-8.5] nT, V_sw = [-400,0,0] km/s Sim-2: IMF = [0,0,-8.5] nT, V_sw = [-400,0,0] km/s Sim-3: IMF = [0,0,-8.5] nT, V_sw = [-400,0,0] km/s Sim-4: IMF = [-15.2,8.4,-8.5] nT, V_sw = [-400,50,0] km/s The Hall term is switched off in sim-2, but switched on in the rest of the simulations. The sodium source is used in all the simulations except for sim-3. In all the simulations, the solar wind density is 40 amu/cc with a temperature of 7.5 eV. We refer the readers to the aforementioned paper for more details. These VTK files can be opened with Paraview.