Browsing College of Sciences and Mathematics by Author "Lin, Y."

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Generation of dynamic pressure pulses downstream of the bow shock by variations in the interplanetary magnetic field orientation

Lin, Y.; Lee, L.C.; Yan, M.; 0000-0003-4012-991X (2022-10-25)

One-dimensional resistive MHD and hybrid simulations are carried out to study the manner by which variations of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) direction generate dynamic pressure pulses in the magnetosheath. The ...

Generation of near-Earth reconnection by divergent flows in the plasma sheet

Lin, Y.; Swift, DW; 0000-0001-8003-9252 (2020-06-25)

A global two-dimensional hybrid simulation is carried out to study the evolution of the near-Earth plasma sheet. It is shown that reconnection X lines and plasmoids can be generated by diverging flows in the plasma sheet. ...

Global hybrid simulation of the dayside reconnection layer and associated field-aligned currents

Lin, Y.; 0000-0001-8003-9252 (2020-06-26)

A two-dimensional global hybrid simulation is carried out to study the structure of the magnetopause boundary layer in the noon-midnight meridian plane associated with the dayside reconnection. In the simulation the bow ...

Global-scale hybrid simulation of cusp precipitating ions associated with magnetopause reconnection under southward IMF

Tan, B.; Lin, Y.; Perez, J. D.; Wang, X. Y.; 0000-0001-8003-9252; 0000-0001-5533-5981 (2020-06-09)

With a 3-D global-scale hybrid simulation model, we investigate the energy spectra of cusp precipitating ions and issues associated with magnetopause reconnection under a southward IMF. Both the spatial and temporal energy ...

Global-scale hybrid simulation of dayside magnetic reconnection under southward IMF: Structure and evolution of reconnection

Tan, B.; Lin, Y.; Perez, J. D.; Wang, X. Y.; 0000-0001-8003-9252; 0000-0001-5533-5981 (2020-06-12)

Magnetopause reconnection is investigated with our 3-D self-consistent global hybrid simulation model. The magnetic configuration and evolution of Flux Transfer Events (FTEs) and the associated ion density and ion velocity ...

Hall effect control of magnetotail dawn-dusk asymmetry: A three-dimensional global hybrid simulation

Lu, San; Lin, Y.; Angelopoulos, V.; Artemyev, A. V.; Pritchett, P. L.; Lu, Quanming; Wang, Xueyi; 0000-0001-8003-9252; 0000-0001-5533-5981 (2020-06-03)

Magnetotail reconnection and related phenomena (e.g., flux ropes, dipolarizing flux bundles, flow bursts, and particle injections) occur more frequently on the duskside than on the dawnside. Because this asymmetry can ...

Hall effect control of magnetotail dawn-dusk asymmetry: A three-dimensional global hybrid simulation

Lu, San; Lin, Y.; Angelopoulos, V; Artemyev, A; Pritchett, P; Lu, Quanming; Wang, X; 0000-0003-3041-2682; 0000-0003-2085-1171 (2022-10-27)

Hybrid simulation of foreshock waves and ion spectra and their linkage to cusp energetic ions

Wang, X. Y.; Lin, Y.; Chang, S. -W.; 0000-0001-5533-5981; 0000-0001-8003-9252 (2020-06-16)

A three-dimensional global hybrid simulation is carried out to investigate energetic ions and electromagnetic waves in the quasi-parallel (Q-parallel to) bow shock and cusp for a typical interplanetary magnetic field ...

Hybrid simulation of foreshock waves and ion spectra and their linkage to cusp energetic ions

Wang, X.Y.; Lin, Y.; Chang, S.W. (2022-10-25)

A three-dimensional global hybrid simulation is carried out to investigate energetic ions and electromagnetic waves in the quasi-parallel (Q-∥) bow shock and cusp for a typical interplanetary magnetic field configuration ...

Hybrid simulation of mode conversion at the magnetopause

Lin, Y.; Johnson, J. R.; Wang, X. Y.; 0000-0001-8003-9252; 0000-0001-5533-5981 (2020-06-16)

Two-dimensional hybrid simulations are used to investigate how fast-mode compressional waves incident on a magnetopause current layer mode convert both linearly and nonlinearly to short wavelength (k(perpendicular to)rho(i) ...

Intermediate shocks in three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic bow-shock flows with multiple interacting shock fronts

Cable, S.; Lin, Y.; Holloway, J. L.; 0000-0001-8003-9252 (2020-06-18)

Previous MHD simulations predict that when switch-on shock conditions obtain in the solar wind, the bow shock produced in front of an ellipsoidal obstacle will produce a unique bow shock configuration that includes a concave ...

Investigation of storm time magnetotail and ion injection using three-dimensional global hybrid simulation

Lin, Y.; Wang, X. Y.; Lu, S.; Perez, J. D.; Lu, Q.; 0000-0001-8003-9252; 0000-0001-5533-5981 (2020-06-05)

Dynamics of the near-Earth magnetotail associated with substorms during a period of extended southward interplanetary magnetic field is studied using a three-dimensional (3-D) global hybrid simulation model that includes ...

Magnetic field rotation and transition width in rotational discontinuities and Alfven wave trains

Lin, Y.; Lee, LC.; 0000-0001-8003-9252 (2020-06-30)

A hybrid simulation is carried out to study the evolution of magnetic field rotations in rotational discontinuities (RDs) and large-amplitude Alfven wave trains (AWTs) whose initial field rotation angle \Delta Phi\ > 180 ...

Magnetic flux rope formation within a magnetosheath hot flow anomaly

Hasegawa, H.; Zhang, H.; Lin, Y.; Sonnerup, B. U. O.; Schwartz, S. J.; Lavraud, B.; Zong, Q. -G.; 0000-0001-8003-9252 (2020-06-09)

We report observations on 1 March 2004 by the Cluster spacecraft of a hot flow anomaly (HFA) encountered in the dayside magnetosheath near Earth's bow shock. Embedded within the HFA was a magnetic flux rope with a diameter ...

Three-dimensional global hybrid simulation of dayside dynamics associated with the quasi-parallel bow shock

Lin, Y.; Wang, XY; 0000-0001-8003-9252; 0000-0001-5533-5981 (2020-06-18)

A three-dimensional global-scale hybrid simulation is carried out, for the first time, for dynamics of the dayside bow shock-magnetosphere system associated with the quasi-parallel bow shock. A case with IMF along the ...

Three-dimensional hybrid simulation of magnetosheath reconnection under northward and southward interplanetary magnetic field

Pang, Y.; Lin, Y.; Deng, X. H.; Wang, X. Y.; Tan, B.; 0000-0001-8003-9252; 0000-0001-5533-5981 (2020-06-16)

A three-dimensional (3-D) global hybrid simulation is carried out for the generation and structure of magnetic reconnection in the magnetosheath because of the interaction of an interplanetary tangential discontinuity (TD) ...

Three-dimensional MHD simulations of interplanetary rotational discontinuities impacting the Earth's bow shock and magnetosheath

Cable, S.; Lin, Y.; 0000-0001-8003-9252 (2020-06-30)

The first ever fully three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the detailed effects of MHD discontinuities on the magnetosheath have been performed. The simulation results predict that the interaction ...

Two-dimensional hybrid simulation of the dayside reconnection layer and associated ion transport

Xie, H.; Lin, Y.; 0000-0001-8003-9252 (2020-06-30)

The structure of the reconnection layer at the dayside magnetopause is studied by using a two-dimensional (2-D) hybrid code. The simulation domain is a rectangle in the at plane around an X line at the magnetopause. In our ...