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Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Earth, Planets, and Space
Volume
72
Publisher
SpringerOpen
Publication Date
2-27-2020
First Page
1
Last Page
9
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Abstract
The refilling of the plasmasphere following geomagnetic storms remains one of the longstanding and interesting problems in ionosphere-magnetosphere coupling research. The objective of this paper is the formulation and development of a one-dimensional (1D) refilling model using the flux-corrected transport method, a numerical method that is extremely well-suited to handling problems with shocks and discontinuities. In this paper, the developed methodology has been validated against exact, analytical benchmarks, and extremely good agreement has been obtained between these analytical benchmarks and numerical results. The ultimate objective of this research is the development of a three-dimensional (3D) multi-ion model for ionosphere-magnetosphere coupling problems in open and closed line geometries.
Recommended Citation
Chatterjee, K., Schunk, R.W. The development and validation of a ‘flux-corrected transport’ based solution methodology for the plasmasphere refilling problem following geomagnetic storms. Earth Planets Space 72, 26 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-020-01150-0
