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Cometary gas and plasma flow with detailed chemistry.

Huebner, W. F.; Wegmann, R.; Schmidt, H. U. +1 more

This paper describes recent hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations for the gas and plasma flow around a comet with detailed photo and chemical reaction network of 59 neutral and 76 ionized chemical species. The method allows for a separate energy balance of the electrons, separate flow of neutral gas, fast neutral atomic and molecu…