Global Hybrid Simulations of the Bow Shock and Its Interaction with Interplanetary Discontinuities

弓激波及其与行星际不连续性相互作用的全局混合模拟

• 批准号: 0213931
• 负责人: Yu Lin
• 金额: $ 21.57万
• 依托单位: Auburn University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-08-01 至 2006-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0213931&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Global; Hybrid; Simulations; Bow; Shock

The interaction of the solar wind with the Earth's magnetosphere produces a shock front. The upstream region, referred to as the foreshock, has been found to have very complicated spatial and temporal structures. Similarly within the sheath region between the magnetopause and the bow shock there can be complex structures that are believed to cause various transient events in the magnetosphere. The kinetic effects of the ions play an important role in the interactions of the solar wind with the bow shock and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations, which treat the plasma a single component fluid, are not adequate for understanding the physics of this region. This project will utilize 2-D and 3-D simulations using a high-resolution hybrid code to study the interactions. The primary topics to be investigated are: (1) the structure of the curved bow shock, including quasi-parallel and quasi-perpendicular shocks, the spatial and temporal variations in the foreshock and shock-particle interactions, and (2) the interaction of interplanetary discontinuities with the bow shock, with particular emphasis on hot flow anomalies (HFAs).

太阳风与地球磁层的相互作用产生激波锋。 上游区域（称为前震）被发现具有非常复杂的时空结构。 类似地，在磁层顶和弓形激波之间的鞘层区域内可能存在复杂的结构，这些结构被认为会导致磁层中的各种瞬态事件。 离子的动力学效应在太阳风与弓形激波的相互作用中发挥着重要作用，而磁流体动力学（MHD）模拟将等离子体视为单组分流体，不足以理解该区域的物理现象。 该项目将利用高分辨率混合代码进行 2D 和 3D 模拟来研究相互作用。 要研究的主要主题是：（1）弯曲弓激波的结构，包括准平行和准垂直激波，前震和激波-粒子相互作用的空间和时间变化，以及（2）弓激波的行星际不连续性，特别是热流异常（HFA）。