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Aligned magnetohydrodynamic solution for solar wind flow past the earth's magnetosphere
John R. Spreiter,Arthur W. Rizzi +1 more
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In this article, exact numerical solutions of the MHD equations for a perfect dissipationless gas with aligned magnetic field were given for conditions representative of steady supersonic solar wind flow past an axisymmetric model of the earth's magnetosphere.About:
This article is published in Acta Astronautica.The article was published on 1974-01-01. It has received 84 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mercury's magnetic field & Bow shocks in astrophysics.read more
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Solar wind flow about the terrestrial planets 1. Modeling bow shock position and shape
James A. Slavin,Robert E. Holzer +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a three-parameter method for modeling the position and shape of planetary bow waves was chosen to model the near portion of the Venus, earth and Mars bow shocks, and its results were compared with those of models using one to six free variables.
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A new predictive model for determining solar wind-terrestrial planet interactions
TL;DR: In this article, a computational model was developed for the determination of the gasdynamic and magnetic field properties of the solar wind flow around a magnetic planet, such as the earth, or a nonmagnetic planet such as Venus, based on an established single-fluid, steady, dissipationless, magnetogasdynamic model.
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Three‐dimensional position and shape of the bow shock and their variation with Alfvénic, sonic and magnetosonic Mach numbers and interplanetary magnetic field orientation
TL;DR: In this paper, a large set of bow shock crossings (i.e., 1392) observed by 17 spacecraft has been used to explore the three-dimensional shape and location of the Earth's bow shock and its dependence on solar wind and interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) conditions.
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Solar wind flow past Venus: Theory and comparisons
TL;DR: In this article, an improved model of solar wind flow past Venus to calculate the locations of the ionopause and bow wave and the properties of the flowing ionosheath plasma in the intervening region is presented.
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Solar wind flow about the outer planets - Gas dynamic modeling of the Jupiter and Saturn bow shocks
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the Pioneer 10 and 11 and Voyager 1 and 2 observations near Jupiter and Saturn to characterize the relevant upstream flow parameters at 5 and 9 AU, focusing on solar wind parameters, bow shock and magnetopause models and the solar wind standoff distance.
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Hydromagnetic flow around the magnetosphere
TL;DR: MHD equations applied to hypersonic flow of solar plasma around magnetosphere and approximation with simpler equations of gas dynamics were used to simulate the solar plasma in the magnetosphere.
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Average and unusual locations of the Earth's magnetopause and bow shock
TL;DR: The average and unusual locations of magnetopause and bow shock positions observed by IMP spacecraft were analyzed in this paper, showing that the bow shock position is unusual for the Earth's magnetic field.
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Diamagnetic Solar-Wind Cavity Discovered behind Moon
TL;DR: Preliminary Ames-magnetometer data from Explorer 35, the lunar orbiter, show no evidence of a lunar bow shock, but an increase of the magnetic field by about 1.5 gamma (over the interplanetary value) is evident on Moon's dark side, as well as dips in field strength at the limbs.
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Plasma flow around the magnetosphere.
TL;DR: In this article, solar plasma flow around magnetosphere, discussing plasma velocity, density and temperature and magnetic field space and time variations is discussed, as well as the magnetic field spatial and temporal variations.
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Reducible Problems in Magneto-Fluid Dynamic Steady Flows
TL;DR: In this paper, reducible fluid-magnetic boundary-value problems are developed in order to map out solvable mathematical structures and analyze the similarities and contrasts with ordinary fluid dynamics, and an analog is given which allows the application of a large part of the literature of inviscid fluid dynamics to a part of magneto-fluid dynamics.
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