Drift Instabilities in Thin Current Sheets Using a Two–Fluid Model With Pressure Tensor Effects

Ng, Jonathan; Hakim, Ammar; Juno, J.; Bhattacharjee, A.

doi:10.1029/2018ja026313

Title: Drift Instabilities in Thin Current Sheets Using a Two–Fluid Model With Pressure Tensor Effects

Journal Article · Mon Apr 15 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1029/2018ja026313· OSTI ID:1558787

^[1]; Hakim, Ammar ^[2];

^[3]; Bhattacharjee, A. ^[4]

Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ (United States); Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ (United States); Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)

Abstract The integration of kinetic effects in fluid models is important for global simulations of the Earth's magnetosphere. We use a two‐fluid 10‐moment model, which includes the pressure tensor and has been used to study reconnection, to study the drift kink and lower hybrid drift instabilities. Using a nonlocal linear eigenmode analysis, we find that for the kink mode, the 10‐moment model shows good agreement with kinetic calculations with the same closure model used in reconnection simulations, while the electromagnetic and electrostatic lower hybrid instabilities require modeling the effects of the ion resonance using a Landau fluid closure. Comparisons with kinetic simulations and the implications of the results for global magnetospheric simulations are discussed.

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Research Organization:: Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Contributing Organization:: 80NSSC17K0428

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-09CH11466

OSTI ID:: 1558787

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1515558

Journal Information:: Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics, Vol. 124, Issue 5; ISSN 2169-9380

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Language:: English

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