Dear all,

 

Please find below an announcement concerning the EBTEL field-line averaged hydrodynamics code on behalf of Peter Cargill, Jim Klimchuk, Will Barnes, and myself. We hope that using an online repository to distribute and support the code makes it more readily accessible to the community and more convenient when requesting help, and enables us to be more responsive when issues and bugs, etc., are reported.

 

Best wishes,

 

Steve

 

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The official version of EBTEL is now hosted on GitHub. You can find the code here. This version includes the updates to the code discussed in Cargill et al. (2012a). The details of the original model are discussed in Klimchuk et al. (2008). Any and all updates to the model will be distributed via GitHub. Any version of the EBTEL code not matching this version should not be regarded as an official version of EBTEL. Bugs may be reported via the issue tracker. More information can be found in the accompanying README and the aforementioned papers. 

 

Additionally, ebtel++, a two-fluid version of EBTEL implemented in C++, offers several advantages over the original EBTEL model, including a significant speedup in compute time. You can find the code here and extensive documentation and examples here. Notably, ebtel++ treats the electron and ion fluids separately, allowing for preferential heating and interaction (via Coulomb collisions) between the two species. ebtel++ also implements a more robust adaptive solver to ensure that the thermal conduction timescale is properly resolved. An additional correction during the conductive phase is also implemented. These improvements are discussed in detail in Barnes et al. (2016). Bugs may be reported via the issue tracker. Any and all updates to ebtel++ will be posted to the GitHub repository.

 

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Dr. Stephen J. Bradshaw

(Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy)

 

Department of Physics and Astronomy, MS 108,

Rice University,

6100 Main Street,

Houston,

TX 77005,

USA.

 

Tel: +1 713 348 4045

Email: stephen.bradshaw@rice.edu