Magnetospheric Coherent Structures in 3D Global MHD Simulations Focusing
on Alfvenic Kármán Vortex Dynamics
Abstract
10 Magnetospheric coherent structures related to the dynamics of the
dayside 11 magnetopause frontier for a northward IMF configuration, are
analyzed using global 3D 12 MHD simulations. The main goal is to reach a
synthetic scenario on the formation of 13 3D unstable/stable structures
developed in different steps from the dayside to the night 14 side. They
are: (i) the transverse Kelvin-Helmholtz (K-H) vortexes are generated
along 15 and outside the magnetopause near the dayside region, while
other K-H vortexes are 16 generated along and inside the magnetopause;
(ii) both rows of vortexes are shed off 17 soon from the magnetopause;
(iii) these vortexes are unstable in one each row, adjust, 18 and evolve
into a marginal stable Kármán vortex street; (iv) these Kármán vortexes
19 soon are reformed into stable longitudinal (stream-wise) coherent
vortexes and survive 20 for long time over large distances
x~-130 to 140Re in the magnetotail. All these 21
processes lead to the formation of magnetospheric coherent structures.
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