Steady state slow shock inside the Earth's magnetosheath: To be or not to be? 2. Numerical three-dimensional MHD modeling

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 109, Issue A1, 2004, Pages

  Samsonov, A A ^a   Hubert, Daniel ^b,c  

^a ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

Author keywords

Magnetosheath; Numerical modelings; Slow MHD shock; Solar wind Magnetosphere interactions; Solar wind discontinuites

Indexed keywords

EID: 41749123052     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JA010006     Document Type: Article

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