Physics
Scientific paper
Oct 1986
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986jgr....9111116b&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 91, Oct. 1, 1986, p. 11116-11122. DOE-DFG-supported research.
Physics
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Field Aligned Currents, Geomagnetic Tail, Magnetic Field Reconnection, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow, Space Plasmas, Boundary Layer Plasmas, Compressible Flow, Flow Velocity, Parallel Flow
Scientific paper
The outflow from a reconnection region in a realistic magnetotail geometry is studied using a two-dimensional time-dependent, compressible, resistive MHD code. Two cases are emphasized: (1) the evolution of near-earth reconnection, which grows in the form of an internal unstable mode after gradual externally forced changes have initiated an anomalous dissipation process, and (2) the evolution of more distant reconnection under influence of a nonuniform inflow that forces reconnection to occur at a given location in the distant tail. In both cases, it is demonstrated that plasma flow is primarily parallel to the magnetic field in regions away from the localized area of reconnection and outside a narrow central layer.
Birn Joachim
Hones Edward W. Jr.
Schindler Karl
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