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The coupling between the magnetosphere and the ionosphere is of major importance for the magnetospheric dynamics. The interaction of a highly collisionless plasma with a strongly collision dominated plasma requires an extension of the usual fluid plasma equations, to include the transport which dominates the ionospheric dynamics. Presented is a newsim ulation model which includes the ionospheric transport as source terms in the set of fluid plasma equations. Various aspects of the ionospheric influence are illustrated with the two-dimensional simulation of the formation and evolution of a field-aligned current layer in the ionosphere.
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Otto, A., Zhu, H. (2003). Fluid Plasma Simulation of Coupled Systems: Ionosphere and Magnetosphere. In: Büchner, J., Scholer, M., Dum, C.T. (eds) Space Plasma Simulation. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 615. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36530-3_10
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