Finite-Footprint Lateral Leakage Constrains Acoustic-Wave Heating at Mars' Exobase: 2D Spherical DSMC Simulations

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This repository contains the simulation data and analysis scripts necessary to reproduce the results presented in: Pérez Chávez, J. A., Tucker, O. J., Carberry Mogan, S. R., Johnson, R. E., & Blaszczak-Boxe, C. (2026). Finite-Footprint Lateral Leakage Constrains Acoustic-Wave Heating at Mars' Exobase: 2D Spherical DSMC Simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets (submitted). The study presents the first two-dimensional spherical Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) simulations of acoustic-wave propagation in Mars' upper atmosphere. Six simulations with varying azimuthal resolution (128-1024 cells) are used to characterize lateral energy leakage from finite wave-forcing regions and to establish grid-convergence criteria for kinetic wave modeling near the exobase. Repository contents: - Macroscopic density and temperature fields (as NumPy arrays) for all six simulations (S1-S6), along with simulation metadata.- Python analysis scripts corresponding to each figure in the manuscript.- Pre-computed reference datasets for 1D spherical comparisons and peak-tracking analysis. See the included README for the full data structure, file descriptions, and usage instructions.

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