Issue With Conductive Shell Around Asteroid

The problem with enveloping the asteroid with a low resisitivity shell to simulate a mock atmosphere persists.

Things we have tried so far:

  1. Ramp up Solar Wind; ramp down asteroid density and temperature (for absorbing boundary condition); ramp down resistivity.
  2. Introduce is a stronger Diffusion factor using fluxes which should have smoothed things out (it didn't).
  3. Make a function for applying boundary conditions instead of copy-pasting it 12 places. Solved an asymmetry error in the code (still unsure how), but doesn't help otherwise.
  4. Trying different resisitivites. All with conductive shells have reached Min Timestep (I was too ambitious with the values perhaps).

Notes:

  • Simulations stop either by density protections at the night side or zones of high B in the day side.
  • The Oran wind mode (700 km/s, 35 particles/cc) seems to run a little longer than our wind (500 km/s, 300 particles/cc).

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