Coronal plumes and fine scale structure in high speed solar wind streams

We present a solar wind model which takes into account the possible origin of fast solar wind streams in coronal plumes. We treat coronal holes as being made up of essentially 2 plasma species, denser, warmer coronal plumes embedded in a surrounding less dense and cooler medium. Pressure balance at the coronal base implies a smaller magnetic field within coronal plumes than without. Considering the total coronal hole areal expansion as given, we calculate the relative expansion of plumes and the ambient medium subject to transverse pressure balance as the wind accelerates. The magnetic flux is assumed to be conserved independently both within plumes and the surrounding coronal hole. Magnetic field curvature terms are neglected so the model is essentially one dimensional along the coronal plumes, which are treated as thin flux-tubes. We compare the results from this model with white-light photographs of the solar corona and in-situ measurements of the spaghetti-like fine-structure of high-speed winds.     

THE CLUSTER MAGNETIC FIELD INVESTIGATION

The Cluster mission provides a new opportunity to study plasma processes and structures in the near-Earth plasma environment. Four-point measurements of the magnetic field will enable the analysis of the three dimensional structure and dynamics of a range of phenomena which shape the macroscopic properties of the magnetosphere. Difference measurements of the magnetic field data will be combined to derive a range of parameters, such as the current density vector, wave vectors, and discontinuity normals and curvatures, using classical time series analysis techniques iteratively with physical models and simulation of the phenomena encountered along the Cluster orbit. The control and understanding of error sources which affect the four-point measurements are integral parts of the analysis techniques to be used. The flight instrumentation consists of two, tri-axial fluxgate magnetometers and an on-board data-processing unit on each spacecraft, built using a highly fault-tolerant architecture. High vector sample rates (up to 67 vectors s^-1) at high resolution (up to 8 pT) are combined with on-board event detection software and a burst memory to capture the signature of a range of dynamic phenomena. Data-processing plans are designed to ensure rapid dissemination of magnetic-field data to underpin the collaborative analysis of magnetospheric phenomena encountered by Cluster.     

高温气体效应对高超声速磁流体控制的影响

高温气体效应会严重影响高温气体流场的流动特性，进而影响高超声速磁流体控制效率。基于低磁雷诺数假设，通过耦合求解带电磁源项的三维Navier-Stokes流场控制方程和电场泊松方程，开展完全气体模型、平衡气体模型、化学非平衡气体模型、热化学非平衡气体模型等条件下的高超声速磁流体控制数值模拟，分析气体模型对磁流体控制的影响，研究高温气体各种非平衡效应及焦耳热振动能量配比等对高超声速磁流体控制的影响规律。研究表明：化学非平衡效应对高超声速磁流体控制影响显著，采用化学非平衡气体模型模拟得到的磁控增阻特性介于完全气体模型和平衡气体模型之间，平衡气体和完全气体模型磁控热流变化的定性规律，与非平衡气体模型模拟结果差异很大；热力学非平衡效应对高超声速磁流体控制的影响，与焦耳热振动能量作用比率紧密相关，随该配比增大，磁场增阻效果由67%降到约12%；高温气体效应会极大地降低磁控增阻效果，会明显地增强部分表面区域的磁控热流减缓效果，要准确数值模拟高超声速磁流体控制，必须有效地考虑化学和热力学非平衡效应，同时选用接近实际情况的焦耳热振动能量配比。     

新型等离子体激励器的数值模拟

为了对新型多电极对等离子体激励器进行可靠的数值模拟,通过求解带有体积力源项的Navier—Stokes方程,模拟单电极对等离子体激励器在二维不可压流中对周围流场的影响,计算结果表明所使用唯象模型的参数基本正确。在此基础上,改进原有模型,对新型双极性等离子体激励器诱导流动进行计算。通过与实验结果的对比,发现改进后的模型能较好地模拟新型双极性等离子体激励器的控制作用,可为今后新型等离子体激励器的应用提供可靠的数值模拟方法。     

航空磁探中水下目标三维积分方程磁场建模

为获取航空磁探中水下铁磁性目标的空间磁场分布,通过三维积分方程法的基本原理推导出空间磁场的解析式,根据矢量恒等式和高斯散度定理简化空间磁场计算式,建立水下铁磁性目标空间磁场预测模型。通过铁磁性长方体对模型进行理论验证,使用铯光泵磁力仪测量铁磁性长旋转椭球体的高空磁场;然后,基于预测模型推算铁磁性长旋转椭球体的磁场,根据实际测量的磁场数据和预测值进行比较。结果表明,预测模型的推算精度较高,平均绝对误差为0.320 5 nT,平均相对误差为12.368%。     

基于漏斗试样的C250钢高温扭转低周疲劳行为

C250钢的扭转疲劳破坏是其主要失效形式之一。为了获得航空材料C250钢的扭转疲劳特性,并消除等直圆棒试样在扭转试验中产生的弊端,依据漏斗试样完成了C250钢在3种高温(150、200、350℃)环境下的扭转低周疲劳试验,获得了在扭转低周疲劳下的扭矩-名义扭转角曲线。基于试验结果,利用FAT方法分析得到了C250钢在3种高温环境下的材料循环本构关系,利用该循环本构关系对漏斗试样进行三维扭转有限元分析,获得漏斗根部剪切应力与扭矩之间的转换公式及漏斗根部剪切应变与名义扭转角之间的转换公式。基于以上试验与分析方法,得到了材料的剪切应变幅-倍循环次数曲线、剪切应力幅-循环分数曲线以及剪切应力-剪切应变的稳定滞回线,发现材料呈现出循环软化特性,并基于Manson-Coffin模型对材料寿命进行了分析。     

热平衡等离子体的二维复合流动数值计算

采用中性气体流动欧拉方程的近似因子分解法，耦合等离子体的热平衡模型方程，对用微波产生的等离子体在喷管内二维轴对称复合流动进行了数值计算。计算结果表明：微波等离子体电子数密度不超出临界值，1kW以下功率微波产生的是弱电离等离子体；气流的马赫数分布不受微波加热功率、喷管入口压强的影响，喷管内等离子体中电子数密度随微波功率的加大而增加，随入口压强的增加而减小。     

Substorm Trigger Processes in the Magnetotail: Recent Observations and Outstanding Issues

The present article reviews recent studies about near-Earth substorm processes. A focus is placed on the relationship between two fundamental processes, that is, tail current disruption (TCD) and the formation of a near-Earth neutral line (NENL). The former is inferred to cause dipolarization, and the latter is often associated with the fast plasma flow in the plasma sheet. Whereas it is inferred from the directions of fast plasma flows that the NENL is formed at 20–30 R _E from the Earth, dipolarization is most manifest in the near-Earth (6.6–12 R _E) region. The observation of the fast plasma flow prior to substorm (Pi2) onsets favors the idea that the NENL is formed first and dipolarization is the effect of the pile-up of magnetic flux convected earthward from the NENL, which is called the pile-up model. The present paper addresses several outstanding issues regarding this model, including (1) the interpretation of plasma flow deceleration in terms of the flux pile up, (2) highly irregular magnetic fluctuations observed in the near- Earth region, (3) the spatial coherency of the fast plasma flow, (4) the spatial structure and expansion of dipolarization region, and (5) the explosive growth phase. The paper also proposes the possibility that TCD is an independent process, but the formation of the NENL sets a favorable condition for it.     

Modelling of the electromagnetic field in the interplanetary space and in the Earth's magnetosphere

A magnetohydrodynamic model of the solar wind flow is constructed using a kinematic approach. It is shown that a phenomenological conductivity of the solar wind plasma plays a key role in the forming of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) component normal to the ecliptic plane. This component is mostly important for the magnetospheric dynamics which is controlled by the solar wind electric field. A simple analytical solution for the problem of the solar wind flow past the magnetosphere is presented. In this approach the magnetopause and the Earth's bow shock are approximated by the paraboloids of revolution. Superposition of the effects of the bulk solar wind plasma motion and the magnetic field diffusion results in an incomplete screening of the IMF by the magnetopause. It is shown that the normal to the magnetopause component of the solar wind magnetic field and the tangential component of the electric field penetrated into the magnetosphere are determined by the quarter square of the magnetic Reynolds number. In final, a dynamic model of the magnetospheric magnetic field is constructed. This model can describe the magnetosphere in the course of the severe magnetic storm. The conditions under which the magnetospheric magnetic flux structure is unstable and can drive the magnetospheric substorm are discussed. The model calculations are compared with the observational data for September 24–26, 1998 magnetic storm (Dst _min=−205 nT) and substorm occurred at 02:30 UT on January 10, 1997. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Identifying the number of aircraft in formation flight using ISAR technique

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磁场对霍尔推力器放电特性及性能参数影响的粒子模拟研究

磁场强度及位形对霍尔推力器放电过程有显著影响。根据霍尔推力器通道尺寸和等离子体放电过程建立二维物理模型,采用粒子模拟方法,研究了不同磁场强度及位形等离子体放电特性,讨论了推力、推功比及放电电流的变化规律。模拟表明:当中轴线磁场强度峰值小于200G时,磁场对电子轴向传导约束减弱;当磁场强度峰值在200G～420G时,电子温度、电离率及电子与壁面碰撞频率降低,出口处离子径向速度增大,壁面腐蚀增加;当磁场强度峰值为280G时,加速区最短,放电电流最小。不同零磁点磁场位形会改变通道电离区和加速区位置,影响推力器放电性能。     

Magnetic reconnection,merging, and viscous interaction in the magnetosphere

Two ideas were advanced for the process of solar wind-magnetospheric interaction in the same year 1961. Dungey suggested that the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF), although weak, might determine the nature of this process by magnetic reconnection as the solar wind plasma flows across the separatrix surface which divides the IMF from the geomagnetic field. Axford and Hines pointed out that the flow inside the magnetopause is in the same sense as the magnetosheath flow and appears to be viscously coupled. Within a few years the dependence of geomagnetic activity on the IMF predicted by Dungey's mechanism was observed, and reconnection began to dominate current theories. One difficulty, that of the implied dissipation at the magnetopause, was troublesome; however, the ISEE-1/2 observations of the predicted high speed flows on several occasions was enough to convince many persons that reconnection ideas were basically correct. Several investigators found some evidence in the ISEE-3 data in the distant magnetotail for the steady-state reconnection line, as demanded by the Dungey model, in the form of a southward sense of the magnetic field through the current sheet. Here, again, there is some hard contrary evidence when the data are analyzed exactly at the cross-tail current sheet: the instantaneous values show a northward sense, even at high values of auroral activity. Coupled with the anti-Sunward plasma flow, this repudiates the steady-state Dungey model. On the other hand, it lends strong support to some kind of viscous effect through the medium of the magnetospheric boundary layer. This is not a semantic problem, as the sense of the electric field (as well as the magnetic field) is opposite for the two cases. The downfall of the reconnection model is its implicit use of frozen-field convection; this problem is obvious when the problem is viewed in three dimensions. Instead, the view is taken that the relevant process must be essentially time-dependent, three-dimensional, and localized. It is proposed that the term merging be used for this generalized timedependent form of reconnection. The merging process (whatever it is) must permit solar wind plasma to cross the magnetopause onto closed field lines of the boundary layer. Once it is there, it provides the viscous-like effect that Axford and Hines had envisaged.     

Modeling of Venus, Mars, and Titan

Increased computer capacity has made it possible to model the global plasma and neutral dynamics near Venus, Mars and Saturn??s moon Titan. The plasma interactions at Venus, Mars, and Titan are similar because each possess a substantial atmosphere but lacks a global internally generated magnetic field. In this article three self-consistent plasma models are described: the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model, the hybrid model and the fully kinetic plasma model. Chamberlain and Monte Carlo models of the Martian exosphere are also described. In particular, we describe the pros and cons of each model approach. Results from simulations are presented to demonstrate the ability of the models to capture the known plasma and neutral dynamics near the three objects.     

Primary sources of large-scale Birkeland currents

We review generation mechanisms of Birkeland currents (field-aligned currents) in the magnetosphere and the ionosphere. Comparing Birkeland currents predicted theoretically with those studied observationally by spacecraft experiments, we present a model for driving mechanism, which is unified by the solar wind-magnetosphere interaction that allows the coexistence of steady viscous interaction and unsteady magnetic reconnection. The model predicts the following: (1) the Region 1 Birkeland currents (which are located at poleward part of the auroral Birkeland-current belt, and constitute quasi-permanently and stably a primary part of the overall system of Birkeland currents) would be fed by vorticity-induced space charges at the core of two-cell magnetospheric convection arisen as a result of viscous interaction between the solar wind and the magnetospheric plasma, (2) the Region 2 Birkeland currents (which are located at equatorward part of the auroral Birkeland-current belt, and exhibit more variable and localized behavior) would orginate from regions of plasma pressure inhomogeneities in the magnetosphere caused by the coupling between two-cell magnetospheric convection and the hot ring current, where the gradient-B current and/or the curvature current (presumably the hot plasma sheet-ring current) are forced to divert to the ionosphere, (3) the Cusp Birkeland currents (which are located poleward of and adjacent to the Region 1 currents and are strongly controlled by the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF)) might be a diversion of the inertia current which is newly and locally produced in the velocity-decelerated region of earthward solar wind where the magnetosphere is eroded by dayside magnetic reconnection, (4) the nightside Birkeland currents which are connected to a part of the westward auroral electrojet in the Harang discontinuity sector might be a diversion of the dusk-to-dawn tail current resulting from localized magnetic reconnection in the magnetotail plasma sheet where plasma density and pressure are reduced.     

Microwave spectrum analysis as solar energy release diagnostics

The possibilities of using spectrographic observations of microwave radio emission as a solar flare plasma diagnostic are discussed. The spectral fine structure of the emission is interpreted in the context of plasma emission mechanisms. The balance equations for particles and plasma turbulence together with the transfer equations for electromagnetic waves in a plasma are solved for a model containing a diverging magnetic loop. As a result of the analysis of the blip-type spectral feature, the structure of energy release region and the unperturbed plasma concentration in the preflare loop are evaluated. The number of accelerated electrons and the intensity of the plasma turbulence in the source region are estimated using the properties of the weak continuum emission following the blip. Based on the degree of circular polarization of both the narrow band and the continuum emission, estimates for the external magnetic field strength and the angular width of the radiating plasma turbulence have been obtained.     

磁控等离子体对尾喷管壁传热特性的影响

根据磁场作用下等离子体的湍流和传热能力将受到抑制的现象, 提出利用磁场控制低温等离子体隔离高温燃气与喷管壁的方法, 以减少高温燃气对壁面的传热, 从而达到降低壁面温度的目的.分别建立诱导磁场方程求解洛伦兹力和磁场作用下的k-ε湍流模型求解湍流粘度, 数值模拟了不同强度磁场作用下的磁控等离子体流动和传热特性.结果表明, 磁场能够有效地抑制湍流强度, 降低传热能力, 从而有效地降低壁面温度;并且磁场越强, 效果越明显.      

超燃冲压发动机二维进气道优化设计方法研究

建立了超燃冲压发动机二维进气道的优化设计模型，运用优化设计方法对三楔角外压和二楔角内压的混压式进气道进行不同约束条件下的一维优化设计。运用数值方法对进气道的优化设计进行了二维验算，验证了优化设计模型及设计方法的正确性。在此基础上将数值计算方法应用于进气道的二维优化设计，进一步提高了进气道的性能。该方法可进一步推广应用于包含三维、真实气体流动的进气道优化设计当中。     

Dayside Proton Aurora: Comparisons between Global MHD Simulations and IMAGE Observations

The IMAGE mission provides a unique opportunity to evaluate the accuracy of current global models of the solar wind interaction with the Earth's magnetosphere. In particular, images of proton auroras from the Far Ultraviolet Instrument (FUV) onboard the IMAGE spacecraft are well suited to support investigations of the response of the Earth's magnetosphere to interplanetary disturbances. Accordingly, we have modeled two events that occurred on June 8 and July 28, 2000, using plasma and magnetic field parameters measured upstream of the bow shock as input to three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations. This paper begins with a discussion of images of proton auroras from the FUV SI-12 instrument in comparison with the simulation results. The comparison showed a very good agreement between intensifications in the auroral emissions measured by FUV SI-12 and the enhancement of plasma flows into the dayside ionosphere predicted by the global simulations. Subsequently, the IMAGE observations are analyzed in the context of the dayside magnetosphere's topological changes in magnetic field and plasma flows inferred from the simulation results. Finding include that the global dynamics of the auroral proton precipitation patterns observed by IMAGE are consistent with magnetic field reconnection occurring as a continuous process while the IMF changes in direction and the solar wind dynamic pressure varies. The global simulations also indicate that some of the transient patterns observed by IMAGE are consistent with sporadic reconnection processes. Global merging patterns found in the simulations agree with the antiparallel merging model, though locally component merging might broaden the merging region, especially in the region where shocked solar wind discontinuities first reach the magnetopause. Finally, the simulations predict the accretion of plasma near the bow shock in the regions threaded by newly open field lines on which plasma flows into the dayside ionosphere are enhanced. Overall the results of these initial comparisons between global MHD simulation results and IMAGE observations emphasize the interplay between reconnection and dynamic pressure processes at the dayside magnetopause, as well as the intricate connection between the bow shock and the auroral region.     

柔壁自适应风洞低超音速实验技术研究

低超音速三维模型实验是在二维柔壁自适应风洞中进行的。将Wedemeyer理论推广到超音速流动,建立了洞壁调整量的计算方法;解决了洞壁预调量效应的计算问题。在此基础上提出洞壁自适应调整方案,它可用于堵塞比较大的模型实验和任意初始壁面。按此洞壁调整方案所作实验结果表明,二维柔壁自适应风洞作超音速三维模型实验时,可有效地抑制压缩、膨胀波经洞壁反射后对气动数据的影响。其消波效果和三维自适应壁风洞的消波效果基本相同,主激波反射的消波效果甚至优于后者。     

Role of ionospheric effects and plasma sheet dynamics in the formation of auroral arcs

At the ionospheric level, the substorm onset (expansion phase) is marked by the initial brightening and subsequent breakup of a pre-existing auroral arc. According to the field line resonance (FLR) wave model, the substorm-related auroral arc is caused by the field-aligned current carried by FLRs. The FLRs are standing shear Alfvén wave structures that are excited along the dipole/quasi-dipole lines of the geomagnetic field. The FLRs (that can cause auroral arc) thread from the Earthward edge of the plasma sheet and link the auroral arc to the plasma sheet region of 6–15 R _E. The region is associated with magnetic fluctuations that result from the nonlinear wave-wave interactions of the cross-field current-instability. The instability (excited at the substorm onset) disrupts the cross-tail current which is built up during the growth phase of the substorms and results in magnetic fluctuations. The diversion of the current to polar regions can lead to auroral arc intensification. The current FLR model is based on the amplitude equations that describe the nonlinear space-time evolution of FLRs in the presence of ponderomotive forces exerted by large amplitude FLRs (excited during substorms). The present work will modify the FLR wave model to include the effects arising from magnetic fluctuations that result from current disruption near the plasma sheet (6–15 R _E). The nonlinear evolution of FLRs is coupled with the dynamics of plasma sheet through a momentum exchange term (resulting from magnetic fluctuations due to current disruption) in the generalized Ohm's law. The resulting amplitude equations including the effects arising from magnetic fluctuations can be used to study the structure of the auroral arcs formed during substorms. We have also studied the role of feedback mechanism (in a dipole geometry of the geomagnetic field) in the formation of the discrete auroral arc observed on the nightside magnetosphere. The present nonlinear dispersive model (NDM) is extended to include effects arising from the low energy electrons originating from the plasma sheet boundary layer. These electrons increase the ionospheric conductivity in a localized patch and enhance the field-aligned current through a feedback mechanism. The feedback effects were studied numerically in a dipole geometry using the the NDM. The numerical studies yield the magnitude of the field-aligned current that is large enough to form a discrete auroral arc. Our studies provide theoretical support to the observational work of Newell et al. that the feedback instability plays a major role in the formation of the discrete auroral arcs observed on the nightside magnetosphere.