Turbulent pick-up of new born ions at Venus and Mars and problems of numerical modeling of solar wind interaction with these planets. II. Two-fluid MHD model.
Abstract
The two-fluid MHD model with anomalous friction between ion species (protons and O+ ions) due to turbulence in the magnetosheat is suggested for the SW interaction with Venus and Mars. The method for calculations and their results for both planets are given. The results are compared with experimental data from Pioneer-Venus and PHOBOS-2 spacecraft and also with the results of the one-fluid MHD model with mass-loading. The results of the two-fluid MHD model are in better agreement with the experimental data than those obtained earlier.
- Publication:
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Kosmicheskie Issledovaniia
- Pub Date:
- May 1991
- Bibcode:
- 1991KosIs..29..432B
- Keywords:
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- Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence;
- Mars (Planet);
- Solar Planetary Interactions;
- Solar Wind;
- Two Fluid Models;
- Venus (Planet);
- Ionic Reactions;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Waves;
- Magnetosheath;
- Neutral Atmospheres;
- Photoionization;
- Planetary Atmospheres;
- Lunar and Planetary Exploration