Limace.jl: A Julia package to compute hydromagnetic modes in spherical domains
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.
Authors
- Felix Gerick (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9924-0562)
Institutions
- Institut de physique du globe de Paris (FR)
- Royal Observatory of Belgium (BE)
- Centre National d'Études Spatiales (FR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Journal of Open Source Software
- Published
- 2025-06-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07593
- Primary Topic
- Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00