THE ROLE OF THE MAGNETOSONIC MACH NUMBER ON THE EVOLUTION OF KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ VORTICES

被引:2
作者
Palermo, F. [1 ]
Faganello, M. [2 ]
Califano, F. [3 ]
Pegoraro, F. [3 ]
Le Contel, O. [4 ]
机构
[1] Nancy Univ, CNRS, Inst Jean Lamour, UMR 7198, Nancy, France
[2] Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, UMR 6633, Lab Phys Interact Ioniques & Moleculaires, Marseille, France
[3] Univ Pisa, Dipartimento Fis, Pisa, Italy
[4] Univ Paris, CNRS, Ecole Polytechn, Lab Phys Plasmas, Paris, France
来源
ECLA: EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON LABORATORY ASTROPHYSICS | 2013年 / 58卷
关键词
MAGNETOTAIL BOUNDARY; GEOTAIL OBSERVATIONS; INSTABILITY; SIMULATION;
D O I
10.1051/eas/1258014
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We review the main results of our previous works, in which we have investigated the development of the Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability in the transitional regime from sub-magnetosonic to super-magnetosonic by varying the solar wind velocity, in conditions typical of those observed at the Earth's magnetopause flanks. In super-magnetosonic regimes, we show that the vortices produced by the development of the KH instability act as an obstacle in the plasma flow and may generate quasi-perpendicular magnetosonic shock structures extending well outside the region of velocity shear.
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页码:91 / +
页数:2
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