Menura: a code for simulating the interaction between a turbulent solar wind and solar system bodies
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
2022-06-01 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Computational Physics
Plasma Physics
Space Physics
Abstract
Despite the close relationship between planetary science and plasma physics, few advanced numerical tools allow to bridge the two topics. The code Menura proposes a breakthrough towards the self-consistent modelling of these overlapping field, in a novel 2-step approach allowing for the global simulation of the interaction between a fully turbulent solar wind and various bodies of the solar system. This article introduces the new code and its 2-step global algorithm, illustrated by a first example: the interaction between a turbulent solar wind and a comet.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2108.12252,
title = {Menura: a code for simulating the interaction between a turbulent solar wind and solar system bodies},
author = {Etienne Behar and Shahab Fatemi and Pierre Henri and Mats Holmstrom},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.12252},
year = {2022}
}