Scaling Laws for Geomagnetic Tail Current Sheet Acceleration.

Abstract

Solutions of the equation describing proton acceleration in the electric field of the Earth's geomagnetic tail often require lengthy numerical calculations and parametric exploration can be difficult. Here, considerations are presented of a scaling nature and shown that these considerations may be used to extend, correlate, organize, and verify groups of solutions with regard to parametric variation. Keywords: Plasma sheet; Particle acceleration.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 22, 1987
Accession Number
ADA193379

Entities

People

  • Christopher Sherman

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Classification
  • Consistency
  • Electric Fields
  • Energy
  • Equations
  • Geophysics
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Magnetic Fields
  • New York
  • Potential Energy
  • Scaling Laws
  • Security
  • Technical Information Centers
  • Thickness
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics
  • Theoretical Analysis.