Self-consistent steady state model of the low-latitude boundary layer

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Feb 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994jgr....99.2351d&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 99, no. A2, p. 2351-2364

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Atmospheric Boundary Layer, Auroral Zones, Latitude, Magnetic Fields, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow, Self Consistent Fields, Atmospheric Models, Boundary Conditions, Field Aligned Currents, Magnetopause, Steady State, Two Dimensional Models

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Results are presented from a steady state numerical model of the low-latitude boundary layer (LLBL) on closed field lines and its coupling to the dayside auroral ionosphere. In the model the boundary layer approximation is used, the result being that inertial forces are taken into account only in the main flow direction (-x) where they are balanced by pressure forces, j x B forces, and viscous forces. Motion in the transverse directions (y and z) is treated kinematically, the force balances in these two directions being purely static. Computationally, the model is two dimensional, describing the motion of plasma and frozen-in magnetic field in the equatorial (xy) plane but allowing for lowest-order polynomial variation of some quantities with the coordinate (z) perpendicular to that plane. The plasma expands and compresses isentropically; the magnetic field is calculated self-consistently, which leads to approximately parabolic field line shape in planes parallel to the magnetopause (the xz plane), with maximum field curvature near the magnetopause edge of the LLBL. Coupling to the ionosphere via region 1 field-aligned currents is included. The effects of the ionosphere are represented by two parallel resistive plates at fixed height above and below the equatorial plane. The model can be used to investigate the influence of various physical parameters, for example, viscous and magnetic Reynolds numbers, and of boundary conditions at the magnetopause and in the magnetosphere on the LLBL development in the -x direction. Special attention is given to viscous effects which, under suitable circumstances, lead to a region 1 current that first increases and then reduces with increasing longitude away from local noon. Asymptotic matching of the antisunward motion of the cool LLBL plasma to sunward convection of hot plasma in the magnetosphere is illustrated along with the entrainment of magnetospheric plasma by the antisunward LLBL flow.

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