Abstract : Despite the close relationship between planetary science and plasma physics, few advanced numerical tools allow bridging the two topics. The code Menura proposes a breakthrough towards the self-consistent modelling of these overlapping fields, in a novel two-step approach allowing for the global simulation of the interaction between a fully turbulent solar wind and various bodies of the solar system. This article introduces the new code and its two-step global algorithm, illustrated by a first example: the interaction between a turbulent solar wind and a comet.
Etienne Behar, Shahab Fatemi, Pierre Henri, Mats Holmström. Menura: a code for simulating the interaction between a turbulent solar wind and solar system bodies. Annales Geophysicae, European Geosciences Union, 2022, 40, pp.281-297. ⟨10.5194/angeo-40-281-2022⟩. ⟨insu-03685364⟩