@Article{EvangelistaDomiMendMira:2018:SiInCo,
author = "Evangelista, Edgard de Freitas Diniz and Domingues, Margarete
Oliveira and Mendes J{\'u}nior, Odim and Miranda, Oswaldo
Duarte",
affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto
Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de
Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas
Espaciais (INPE)}",
title = "Simulating the interaction of a comet with the solar wind using a
magnetohydrodynamic mode",
journal = "Discontinuity, Nonlinearity, and Complexity",
year = "2018",
volume = "7",
number = "2",
pages = "143--149",
keywords = "Magnetohydrodynamics, FLASH Code, Solar Wind, Comet.",
abstract = "This paper presents the simulation of the interaction of a comet
with the solar wind. It is used the formalism of the ideal
magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in order to simulate the behaviour of
such a system. The comet itself is inserted in the equations as a
spherically symmetric source of ions. Specifically, this source
term represents the process of mass-loading, that is, the
phenomenon where the heavy cometary ions are picked up by the
solar wind. From the numerical viewpoint, it is used the FLASH
code to solve the system of equations of the MHD and to generate
the output files. It is investigated the influence of the physical
characteristics of the solar wind, such as velocity and magnetic
field, on the coma and tail of the comet. This issue is addressed
by performing simulations considering, for sake of comparison,
three regimes of solar activity, namely: low activity, mean or
typical activity and intense activity.",
doi = "10.5890/DNC.2018.06.003",
url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.5890/DNC.2018.06.003",
issn = "2164-6376",
language = "en",
targetfile = "evangelista_simulating.PDF",
urlaccessdate = "28 mar. 2024"
}