Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
Oct 1986
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986angeo...4..341w&link_type=abstract
Annales Geophysicae, Series A - Upper Atmosphere and Space Sciences, vol. 4, Oct. 1986, p. 341-354.
Physics
Plasma Physics
Magnetopause, Nonequilibrium Plasmas, Solar Terrestrial Interactions, Space Plasmas, Collimation, Collisionless Plasmas, Discontinuity, Electric Fields, Electron Energy, Proton Energy, Solar Magnetic Field, Trapped Particles
Scientific paper
As a consequence of the insolubility of the steady-state Vlasov-Maxwell equations under certain conditions, the concept of microscopic stress nonequilibrium in plasma physics is proposed. From the Maxwell and plasma stress tensors a general stress equilibrium condition for tangential plasma discontinuities is obtained, and a general solution of the distribution functions is derived using Jean's theorem or Liouville's theorem for the solar wind particles in a tangential magnetosphere. It is found that Parker's (1967) tail-region and Wu's (1986) dawn-side nonequilibria are micrononequilibria, because of the violations of the present equilibrium conditions, and that randomly trapped particles and an inwards electric field in the magnetopause layer generally cannot relieve the dawn-side or tail-region micrononequilibria.
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