A theoretical and simulation study of the contact discontinuities based on a Vlasov simulation code

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题名:	A theoretical and simulation study of the contact discontinuities based on a Vlasov simulation code
作者:	Tsai,TC;Lyu,LH;Chao,JK;Chen,MQ;Tsai,WH
贡献者:	太空科學研究所
关键词:	ROTATIONAL DISCONTINUITIES;SOLAR-WIND;PLASMAS;SHOCKS;EQUATION;HYBRID;SPACE
日期:	2009
上传时间:	2010-06-29 18:37:08 (UTC+8)
出版者:	中央大學
摘要:	Contact discontinuity (CD) is the simplest solution that can be obtained from the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) Rankine-Hugoniot jump conditions. Due to the limitations of the previous kinetic simulation models, the stability of the CD has become a controversial issue in the past 10 years. The stability of the CD is reexamined analytically and numerically. Our theoretical analysis shows that the electron temperature profile and the ion temperature profile must be out of phase across the CD if the CD structure is to be stable in the electron time scale and with zero electron heat flux on either side of the CD. Both a newly developed fourth-order implicit electrostatic Vlasov simulation code and an electromagnetic finite-size particle code are used to examine the stability and the electrostatic nature of the CD structure. Our theoretical prediction is verified by both simulations. Our results of Vlasov simulation also indicate that a simulation with initial electron temperature profile and ion temperature profile varying in phase across the CD will undergo very transient changes in the electron time scale but will relax into a quasi-steady CD structure within a few ion plasma oscillation periods if a real ion-electron mass ratio is used in the simulation and if the boundary conditions allow nonzero heat flux to be presented at the boundaries of the simulation box. The simulation results of this study indicate that the Vlasov simulation is a powerful tool to study nonlinear phenomena with nonperiodic boundary conditions and with nonzero heat flux at the boundaries of the simulation box.
關聯:	JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS
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