Self-Consistent Effects of Magnetospheric Hydromagnetic Waves on Ring Current Ions

Abstract

Major progress was made in obtaining an explanation for the rapid formation of new electron and proton radiation belts during the March 30, 1991 geomagnetic storm sudden commencement. Preliminary work on proton acceleration during the same event was reported at the Fall AGU meeting in December, an important feature of the simulation code that has been developed is the ability to post-process data runs after the trajectories of several hundred thousand ions or electrons have been followed through the inbound and outbound propagation time of the wave fields, which is about 100 seconds of real time, As a first step in the development of the three-dimensional MHD fluid-gyrokinetic particle hybrid code, a three-dimensional MHD version of the code in generalized orthogonal coordinates has been developed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 31, 1993
Accession Number
ADA277406

Entities

People

  • M. K. Hudson

Organizations

  • Dartmouth College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Satellites
  • Charged Particles
  • Data Analysis
  • Detectors
  • Electric Fields
  • Electron Energy
  • Electron Flux
  • Geosynchronous Orbits
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Magnetic Storms
  • Measurement
  • Orbits
  • Radiation
  • Simulations
  • Spacecraft
  • Three Dimensional
  • Trajectories

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Space/Atmospheric Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics