Multi-fluid MHD Cometary Atmosphere Simulation for Halley-type Comets.

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Nov 2004

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American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #36, #34.09; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 36, p.1149

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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We present new results of our Cometary Atmosphere Simulation (CASIM) code that is presently under development to model the interaction of a cometary atmosphere with the solar wind. Several high-resolution 2-D simulations for a Halley-type comet are shown.
In the current simulations we investigate more precisely the evolution of the interaction between the cometary atmosphere and the solar wind starting from the early stages of the comet outgassing ( 5. a.u.) to the peak of its activity ( 1.5 a.u.). Our code is based on the solution of the multi-fluid MHD equations using an efficient adaptively refined cartesian mesh solver that provides a very high resolution over a large space domain (simulation domain 108 km, highest resolution 25 m).
The multi-fluid approach we chose leads to a more accurate representation of the cometary atmosphere since additional details of the interaction between the neutral gas and the plasma, and their resulting structures are revealed. In particular, the multi-fluid representation of the ion population gives an improved view of the coupling between heavy and light ions and the resulting coma boundaries at different spatial scales.
This research is sponsored by NASA and the National Academies.

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