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Spreiter & Stahara 1980
Spreiter, J.R. and Stahara, S.S. (1980). Solar wind flow past Venusk: Theory and comparisons. Journal of Geophysical Research 85: doi: 10.1029/JA080i013p07715. issn: 0148-0227.

Advanced computational procedures are applied to an improved model of solar wind flow past Venus to calculate the locations of the ionopause and bow wave and the properties of the flowing ionosheath plasma in the intervening region. The theoretical method is based on a single-fluid, steady, dissipationless, magnetohydrodynamic continuum model and is appropriate for the calculation of axisymmetric supersonic, super-Alfv¿nic solar wind flow past a nonmagnetic planet possessing a sufficiently dense ionosphere to stand off the flowing plasma above the subsolar point and elsewhere. Determination of time histories of plasma and magnetic field properties along an arbitratry spacecraft trajectory and provision for an arbitrary oncoming direction of the interplanetary solar wind have been incorporated in the model. An outline is provided of the underlying theory and computational procedures, and sample comparisons of the results are presented with observations from the Pioneer Venus orbiter.

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