Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
May 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001agusm..sm42b03d&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2001, abstract #SM42B-03
Physics
Plasma Physics
2403 Active Experiments, 2712 Electric Fields (2411), 2753 Numerical Modeling, 2756 Planetary Magnetospheres (5443, 5737, 6030), 7835 Magnetic Reconnection
Scientific paper
Momentum transfer between an ionized gas cloud moving relative to an ambient magnetized plasma is a general problem in space plasma physics. Obvious examples include the Io-Jupiter interaction, comets, and coronal mass ejections. Active plasma experiments have demonstrated that momentum transfer rates associated with Alfvén wave propagation is poorly understood. Barium injection experiments from the Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite (CRRES) have shown that dense ionized clouds are capable of E x B drifting over large distances perpendicular the magnetic field. The CRRES "skidding" distances were much larger than predicted by MHD theory and it has been proposed that parallel electric fields were a key component in the "skidding" phenomenon (Delamere et al., Physics of Plasmas, 7, 2000). A two-fluid code was used to demonstrate the role of parallel electric fields in reducing momentum transfer between two distinct plasma populations. In this study, a dense plasma was initialized moving relative to an ambient plasma and perpendicular to B. Parallel electric fields were introduced via a friction term in the electron momentum equation and the collision frequency was scaled in proportion to the field-aligned current density. The simulation results showed that parallel electric fields decreased the decelerating magnetic tension force on the plasma cloud through a magnetic diffusion/reconnection process.
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