Solar wind flow past Venus and its implications for the occurrence of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1793-1803

  Biernat, H K ^a,b   Erkaev, N V ^c   Amerstorfer, U V ^a,b   Penz, T ^a,b,d   Lichtenegger, H I M ^a  

^a Austrian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c INSTITUTE OF COMPUTATIONAL MODELING   (Russian Federation)

^d INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Instabilities; Magnetohydrodynamics; Magnetosheath; Solar wind; Venus

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPACE RESEARCH; WIND EFFECTS;

KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY; NONDISSIPATIVE FLUID; SOLAR WIND FLOW; XUV FLUX;

SOLAR WIND;

EID: 34748818671     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2007.01.006     Document Type: Article

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