AGATE-Open Source

Project information

The AGATE open-source plasma simulation code, part of the Magnetosphere-Aurora Boundary Layer Explorer (MARBLE) project, is an ongoing effort to solve the kinetic Hall Magnetohydrodynamics equations within a planetary magnetosphere. We envision AGATE as a open-source community model usable for teaching, a testbed for prototype development, and a means to more easily ingest and make accessible advanced features from privately developed global codes. Currently, AGATE is capable of solving the ideal, Hall and CGL (with pressure anisotropy) magnetohydrodynamics equations on multiple distributed processors with both CPU and GPU acceleration.