SVS1993-0001
Title: Topological Features of a Compressible Plasma Vortex Sheet - a Model of the Outer Heliospheric Wind
Abstract: Voyager and Pioneer Spacecraft have detected large-scale quasi-periodic plasma fluctuations in the outer heliosphere beyond 20 A.U. A plasma vortex sheet model can explain these fluctuations and the observed correlations between various physical variables. The large scale outer heliosphere is modeled by solving the 3-D compressible magnetohydrodynamic equations involving three interacting shear layers. Computations were done on a NASA Cray computer at the Center for Computational Sciences. Two cases are animated: Weak magnetic field, strong magnetic field. Contours of density are shown as dark transparent 'tubes'. Critical points of the velocity field are represented by 'Glyphs'. Vortex cores are shown in orange and blue.
Metadata date: 2008-10-12
Trt: 00:08:08:00
Audio: No Audio
Movie	ID	Title	Start Time Code	Stop Time Code
	8	Topological Features of a Compressible Plasma Vortex Sheet: 6 Cases	0:01:12:00  -	0:09:20:00
	9	Topological Features of a Compressible Plasma Vortex Sheet - a Model of the Outer Heliospheric Wind	0:01:12:00  -	0:09:20:00

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