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Characteristics of proton velocity distribution functions in the near-lunar wake from Chandrayaan-1/SWIM observations
M B Dhanya, Anil Bhardwaj, Yoshifumi Futaana +5
Due to the high absorption of solar wind plasma on the lunar dayside, a large scale wake structure is formed downstream of the Moon. However, recent in-situ observations have revea…
Details of a Hybrid Model for the Interaction between the Solar Wind and Planets Implemented in FLASH
M. Holmstrom, X. -D. Wang
A hybrid plasma solver treats ions as particles and electrons as a fluid. We have implemented a parallel hybrid solver in the FLASH open source software framework. The solver has b…
Handling vacuum regions in a hybrid plasma solver
M. Holmstrom
In a hybrid plasma solver (particle ions, fluid mass-less electrons) regions of vacuum, or very low charge density, can cause problems since the evaluation of the electric field in…
Modeling the Lunar plasma wake
M. Holmstrom, B. Eliasson
Bodies that lack a significant atmosphere and internal magnetic fields, such as the Moon and asteroids, can to a first approximation be considered passive absorbers of the solar wi…
An Energy Conserving Parallel Hybrid Plasma Solver
M. Holmstrom
We investigate the performance of a hybrid plasma solver on the test problem of an ion beam. The parallel solver is based on cell centered finite differences in space, and a predic…
Asymmetries in Mars' Exosphere: Implications for X-ray and ENA Imaging
Mats Holmström
Observations and simulations show that Mars' atmosphere has large seasonal variations. Total atmospheric density can have an order of magnitude latitudinal variation at exobase hei…