MHD instabilities at the Mercury's magnetopause
Abstract
Based on a flexible numerical incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) approach implemented for studying a coupled Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) and tearing mode (TM) instabilities, we investigate the applicability of this mixing-boundary-layer MHD approach to theMercury's magnetopause and by means of numerical simulations perform parameters study using the MESSENGER data
- Publication:
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European Planetary Science Congress
- Pub Date:
- September 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018EPSC...12.1081I