Cross scale energy transport in space plasmas: Application to the Magnetopause Boundary.
Document Type
Contribution to Book
Publication Date
2021
Abstract
As space plasmas are highly collisionless and involve several temporal and spatial scales, understanding the physical mechanisms responsible for energy transport between these scales is a challenge. Ideally, to study cross-scale space plasma processes, simultaneous multispacecraft measurements in three different scales (fluid, ion and electron) would be required together with adequate instrumental temporal resolution. In this chapter we discuss cross-scale energy transport mechanisms mainly focusing on velocity shear driven Kelvin–Helmholtz instability and resulting secondary instabilities and processes, e.g. magnetic reconnection, kinetic magnetosonic waves, and kinetic Alfvén waves/mode conversion.
First Page
109
Last Page
121
Book Title
Magnetospheres in the Solar System
Editor
Romain Maggiolo, Nicolas Andre, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Daniel T. Welling, Yongliang Zhang, and Larry J. Paxton
Publisher
AGU Books
Series
Geophysical Monograph Series
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119815624.ch7
First Department
Engineering
Recommended Citation
Nykyri, Katariina; Ma, Xuanye; and Johnson, Jay R., "Cross scale energy transport in space plasmas: Application to the Magnetopause Boundary." (2021). Faculty Publications. 3243.
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/pubs/3243