Magnetic field grid

A plot of the grid corners which the magnetic field values are taken from when tracing magnetic field lines.

Notice how the spacing becomes larger at the poles, and closer to the source surface. This is because the grid is equally spaced in \(\cos \theta\) and \(\log r\).

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

from sunkit_magex import pfss

Define the grid spacings.

ns = 15
nphi = 360
nr = 10
rss = 2.5

Create the grid.

grid = pfss.grid.Grid(ns, nphi, nr, rss)

Get the grid edges, and transform to r and theta coordinates.

r_edges = np.exp(grid.rg)
theta_edges = np.arccos(grid.sg)

The corners of the grid are where lines of constant (r, theta) intersect, so meshgrid these together to get all the grid corners.

r_grid_points, theta_grid_points = np.meshgrid(r_edges, theta_edges)

Plot the resulting grid corners.

fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(projection='polar')

ax.scatter(theta_grid_points, r_grid_points)
ax.scatter(theta_grid_points + np.pi, r_grid_points, color='C0')

ax.set_ylim(0, 1.1 * rss)
ax.set_theta_zero_location('N')
ax.set_yticks([1, 1.5, 2, 2.5], minor=False)
ax.set_title('$n_{r}$ = ' f'{nr}, ' r'$n_{\theta}$ = ' f'{ns}')

plt.show()