The Solar Wind Particle Burst Engine models the solar wind by simulating bursts of particles emitted by coronal holes. The idea is to simulate continuous flow of particles using discrete representation of the world. We can represent the wind as a finite number of particle bursts. The world space is one dimensional. It is represented with finite number of bins. The bins are enumerated with index. Greater the index, greater the distance of the bin from the Sun. Therefore the bin with index 0 corresponds to the Sun surface. Each bin at every particular time moment can “contain” zero or more particle bursts. At every world time tick (the time is modelled in a discrete way in form of integer ticks) the particle bursts move out of the Sun by leaving one bin and getting into another.
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Since we can characterise each burst with some emergence time (tick) and some velocity, each simulation run can be entirely described as a set of bursts. The velocity of every burst is constant, we consider it as a function of coronal holes at the burst emergence time moment.<\/p>\n
Here you can see the demo run of burst engine:<\/p>\n