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

Abstract

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.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [3];  [4]
  1. Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ (United States); Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
  2. Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
  3. Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
  4. Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ (United States); Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
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Research Org.:
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
Contributing Org.:
80NSSC17K0428
OSTI Identifier:
1558787
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1515558
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-09CH11466
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 124; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2169-9380
Publisher:
American Geophysical Union
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS

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Ng, Jonathan, Hakim, Ammar, Juno, J., and Bhattacharjee, A. Drift Instabilities in Thin Current Sheets Using a Two–Fluid Model With Pressure Tensor Effects. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1029/2018ja026313.
Ng, Jonathan, Hakim, Ammar, Juno, J., & Bhattacharjee, A. Drift Instabilities in Thin Current Sheets Using a Two–Fluid Model With Pressure Tensor Effects. United States. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018ja026313
Ng, Jonathan, Hakim, Ammar, Juno, J., and Bhattacharjee, A. Mon . "Drift Instabilities in Thin Current Sheets Using a Two–Fluid Model With Pressure Tensor Effects". United States. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018ja026313. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1558787.
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title = {Drift Instabilities in Thin Current Sheets Using a Two–Fluid Model With Pressure Tensor Effects},
author = {Ng, Jonathan and Hakim, Ammar and Juno, J. and Bhattacharjee, A.},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1029/2018ja026313},
journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics},
number = 5,
volume = 124,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Apr 15 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Mon Apr 15 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}

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