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Computer Simulation of Reconnection in Planetary Magnetospheres

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

J. Birn
J. Birn*
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM 87545

Abstract

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The earth's magnetosphere provides an ideal opportunity to model reconnection in well known geometries that are close enough to the idealized analytic models to make a comparison of the computer models with analytic theory meaningful. In addition more detailed, even three-dimensional, models can be used for a comparison with extended data from in situ observations. The computer studies have basically confirmed the reconnection picture that was based on two-dimensional steady state models and linear analytic theory. The three-dimensional models in particular have also added a lot more information on the reconnection process and the structure of flow, magnetic fields, and currents including many features that are consistent with observations and empirical models of geomagnetic substorms.

Type
Session III
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 107: Unstable Current Systems and Plasma Instabilities , 1985 , pp. 167 - 184
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1985 

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