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SIM - Simple Ionosphere Model

SIM is an ionosphere electrodynamics solver being designed to use with non-dipolar or multipolar planetary magnetic fields. It works stand-alone, and we are working to couple it with BATSRUS.

• It solves for the ionospheric potential over the whole sphere instead of two separate hemispheres. This also means that linear system created for the Krylov solver is larger. As SIM is a serial code, it is usually slower than Ridley_serial.

• SIM allows for inhomogeneous Pedersen and Hall conductances.