Articles | Volume 40, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-40-281-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-40-281-2022
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09 May 2022
Regular paper |  | 09 May 2022

Menura: a code for simulating the interaction between a turbulent solar wind and solar system bodies

Etienne Behar, Shahab Fatemi, Pierre Henri, and Mats Holmström

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Despite the solar wind being turbulent in nature, numerical models of its interaction with obstacles have until now assumed it to be laminar. The code \textit{Menura} allows for the global simulation of the interaction between a fully turbulent solar wind and various bodies of the solar system. The code is illustrated by a first example: the interaction between a turbulent solar wind and a comet.