Review of solar wind entry into and transport within the plasma sheet

S Wing, JR Johnson, CC Chaston, M Echim… - Space Science …, 2014 - Springer
The plasma sheet is populated in part by the solar wind plasma. Four solar entry
mechanisms are examined:(1) double cusp or double lobe reconnection,(2) Kelvin …

A review on solar wind modeling: Kinetic and fluid aspects

MM Echim, J Lemaire, Ø Lie-Svendsen - Surveys in geophysics, 2011 - Springer
The paper reviews the main advantages and limitations of the kinetic exospheric and fluid
models of the solar wind (SW). The general theoretical background is outlined: the …

Recent progress in physics-based models of the plasmasphere

V Pierrard, J Goldstein, N André, VK Jordanova… - … Earth's Plasmasphere: A …, 2009 - Springer
We describe recent progress in physics-based models of the plasmasphere using the fluid
and the kinetic approaches. Global modeling of the dynamics and influence of the …

Augmented empirical models of plasmaspheric density and electric field using IMAGE and CLUSTER data

BW Reinisch, MB Moldwin, RE Denton… - Space Science …, 2009 - Springer
Empirical models for the plasma densities in the inner magnetosphere, including
plasmasphere and polar magnetosphere, have been in the past derived from in situ …

Theory and observations of upward field‐aligned currents at the magnetopause boundary layer

S Wing, JR Johnson - Geophysical research letters, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The dependence of the upward field‐aligned current density (J||) at the dayside
magnetopause boundary layer is well described by a simple analytic model based on a …

Magnetopause properties at the dusk magnetospheric flank from global magnetohydrodynamic simulations, the kinetic Vlasov equilibrium, and in situ observations …

M Echim, C Munteanu, G Voitcu… - Earth and Planetary …, 2023 - eppcgs.org
We derived the properties of the terrestrial magnetopause (MP) from two modeling
approaches, one global–fluid, the other local–kinetic, and compared the results with data …

Transport and entry of plasma clouds/jets across transverse magnetic discontinuities: Three‐dimensional electromagnetic particle‐in‐cell simulations

G Voitcu, M Echim - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper we use three‐dimensional electromagnetic particle‐in‐cell simulations to
investigate the interaction of a small Larmor radius plasma cloud/jet with a transverse …

Crescent-shaped electron velocity distribution functions formed at the edges of plasma jets interacting with a tangential discontinuity

G Voitcu, M Echim - Annales Geophysicae, 2018 - angeo.copernicus.org
In this paper we discuss numerical simulations that illustrate a physical mechanism leading
to the formation of crescent-shaped electron velocity distribution functions at the edges of a …

Asymmetric kinetic equilibria: Generalization of the BAS model for rotating magnetic profile and non-zero electric field

N Dorville, G Belmont, N Aunai, J Dargent… - Physics of Plasmas, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Finding kinetic equilibria for non-collisional/collisionless tangential current layers is a key
issue as well for their theoretical modeling as for our understanding of the processes that …

On the phenomenology of magnetosheath jets with insight from theory, modelling, numerical simulations and observations by Cluster spacecraft

M Echim, M Voiculescu, C Munteanu… - Frontiers in Astronomy …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: During recent years magnetosheath plasma structures called “jets” are
identified in spacecraft data as localized regions in the magnetosheath where the dynamic …