3D, Multi-fluid, MHD Calculations Of Plasma Escape From Mars
Abstract
We use our new multi-fluid, MHD model to calculate plasma escape from Mars. Our lower boundary is set at 100 km and we have a radial grid resolution of about 10 km in the ionosphere. We consider both photo and electron impact ionization, as well as charge exchange processes in calculating the escape fluxes, using a variety of solar and upstream conditions.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2008
- Bibcode:
- 2008AGUFMSM13A1670N
- Keywords:
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- 2753 Numerical modeling;
- 2780 Solar wind interactions with unmagnetized bodies;
- 6225 Mars