Kinetic simulation of plasma flows in the inner magnetosphere

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Nov 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993jgr....9819301m&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 98, no. A11, p. 19,301-19,313

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Convective Flow, Coulomb Collisions, Earth Magnetosphere, Ion Injection, Kinetics, Plasma Drift, Plasmasphere, Thermal Plasmas, Boundary Conditions, Computerized Simulation, Convection, Earth Ionosphere, Geomagnetism, Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling, Momentum

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A one-dimensional hybrid particle code is used to study the interactions between upflowing thermal ions from conjugate ionospheres. The simulation model allows for multiple species, convection of plasmaspheric flux tubes, and Coulomb self-collisions which conserve momentum and energy locally. The model incorporates a variable-flux boundary condition where the flux, at the boundaries, approaches zero as the plasmasphere fills and equilibrium conditions are reached. The effects of two important processes on plasmaspheric refilling have been considered. The first includes convection of the plasmaspheric flux tube. The second is the interaction of ionospheric thermal plasma and particle injection from an external source. Particle injection seems to play an important role in the evolution of the total particle distribution on the early timescales (t less than 1 hour); however, for late timescales (t larger than 8 days) the thermal plasma from the ionosphere dominates the particle distribution.

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