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Solar wind flow near a reconnection site at the dayside magnetopause: development of an existing three-dimensional model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2007

LARS G. WESTERBERG  and
H.O. ÅKERSTEDT
LARS G. WESTERBERG
Affiliation:
Division of Fluid Mechanics, Luleå University of Technology, SE-971 87, Luleå, Sweden (lars-goran.westerberg@itu.se)
H.O. ÅKERSTEDT
Affiliation:
Division of Fluid Mechanics, Luleå University of Technology, SE-971 87, Luleå, Sweden (lars-goran.westerberg@itu.se)
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Abstract.

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An improvement of an existing three-dimensional analytical model describing the solar wind flow near a reconnection site at the dayside magnetopause is reported. Introducing an arbitrary orientation of the reconnection line, general solutions for the plasma velocity and magnetic field during the transition of the magnetopause are presented, together with the development of the magnetopause transition layer away from the reconnection site.

Type
Letter to the Editor
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 73 , Issue 2 , April 2007 , pp. 145 - 151
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

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