Kelvin-Helmholtz instability at the magnetospheric boundary

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Oct 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985georl..12..635m&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 12, Oct. 1985, p. 635-638. Sponsorship: Ministry of Education of Japan.

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Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability, Magnetospheric Instability, Space Environment Simulation, Space Plasmas, Corrugating, Cross Sections, Current Sheets, Inhomogeneity, Magnetopause

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A magnetohydrodynamic simulation of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability at the magnetospheric boundary is performed by including inhomogeneities of plasma and magnetic field at the dayside low latitude magnetospheric boundary. A magnetopause current layer is corrugated highly nonlinearly by the instability and a wide velocity boundary layer is formed within the magnetopause current layer, this result being consistent with observations. Interchange of plasma and flux tubes is accomplished by the instability.

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