Numerical study of the current sheet and plasma sheet boundary layer in a magnetotail model

Computer Science – Numerical Analysis

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Boundary Layer Plasmas, Current Sheets, Electromagnetic Fields, Geomagnetic Tail, Magnetic Storms, Plasma Layers, Space Plasmas, Electric Fields, Lorentz Force, Magnetic Fields, Numerical Analysis, Stochastic Processes, Time Dependence, Two Dimensional Models

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The current sheet and plasma sheet boundary layer (PSBL) in a magnetotail model are discussed. A test particle code is used to study the response of ensembles of particles to a two-dimensional, time-dependent model of the geomagnetic tail, and test the proposition (Coroniti, 1985a, b; Buchner and Zelenyi, 1986; Chen and Palmadesso, 1986; Martin, 1986) that the stochasticity of the particle orbits in these fields is an important part of the physical mechanism for magnetospheric substorms. The realistic results obtained for the fluid moments of the particle distribution with this simple model, and their insensitivity to initial conditions, is consistent with this hypothesis.

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