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Fall 2012
Multi-Agent Simulation (MAS) is a widely used paradigm for modeling and simulating real world complex system, ranging from ant colony foraging to online trading. MAS describes a complex system by representing it as a collection of interactive and concurrent objects following a set of predefined...
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Charged particle behavior in the growth and damping stages of ultralow frequency waves: Theory and Van Allen Probes observations
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Wygant, John R., Zong, Qui-Gang, Kletzing, Craig A., Blake, J. Bernard, Kivelson, Margaret G., Zhou, Xuzhi, Chen, Xing-Ran, Rankin, Robert, Wang, Zi-Han
Ultralow frequency (ULF) electromagnetic waves in Earth's magnetosphere can accelerate charged particles via a process called drift resonance. In the conventional drift resonance theory, a default assumption is that the wave growth rate is time independent, positive, and extremely small. However,...
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2011
Elkington, Scot R., Degeling, Alex W., Rankin, Robert
The process of magnetospheric radiation belt electron transport driven by ULF waves is studied using a 2-D ideal MHD model for ULF waves in the equatorial plane including day/night asymmetry and a magnetopause boundary, and a test kinetic model for equatorially mirroring electrons. We find that...
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1997
Tikhonchuk, V. T., Voronkov, I., Frycz, P., Samson, J. C., Rankin, Robert
The nonlinear dynamics of a shear flow and its subsequent evolution in the equatorial plane of the inner plasma sheet is studied. A linear analysis of the ideal MHD equations reveals a hybrid vortex instability which appears because of the coupling of Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) and Rayleigh-Taylor...
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Crack Growth Behavior of Pipeline Steels under Variable Pressure Fluctuations in a Near-Neutral pH Environment
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This research aims at understanding the crack propagation behavior of pipeline steels under variable pressure fluctuations in a near-neutral pH environment. Although pressure fluctuations have been recognized as the driving force for crack growth for more than two decades, the mechanisms...
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2008
Kabin, Konstantin, Rankin, Robert, Ozeke, Louis G., Degeling, Alex W., Mann, Ian R.
The adiabatic drift-resonant interaction between relativistic, equatorially mirroring electrons and narrowband, Pc 5 ultra low frequency (ULF) waves in the magnetosphere is investigated using a time-dependent magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) wave model. Attention is focused on the effect of a ULF wave...
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2008
Rankin, Robert, Trichtchenko, Larisa, Yuan, Xingqiu, Cairns, Iver H.
Recent simulation results have revealed that energetic electron bursts are produced cyclically at the shock reformation period upstream of reforming shocks and are qualitatively very different from the continuous beam expected from time-stationary shocks (Yuan et al., 2007a). This paper extends...
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2008
Marchand, Richard, Lu, J. Y., Rankin, Robert, Solomon, Stanley C., Wang, Wenbin, Le, G. M., Wang, J. S., Lei, J., Rae, I. Johnathan
A new interactive M-I coupling model that describes the dynamic interaction between magnetospheric dispersive waves, compressional modes, and auroral electron precipitations is applied to investigate the geomagnetic electromagnetic pulsations observed in Earth's magnetosphere in terms of...
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Field line resonances in a stretched magnetotail: CANOPUS optical and magnetometer observationsournal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 107(A7), [pp
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Tikhonchuk, V. T. , Wanliss, J. A., Rankin, Robert, Samson, J. C.
Ground-based observations support the existence of 1-4 mHz field line resonances (FLRs) at auroral latitudes. The low frequencies suggest that many nightside FLRs are excited on stretched magnetic field lines in the inner plasma sheet. Data from the Canadian Auroral Network for the OPEN Program...
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Field Line Resonances in Earth’s Magnetosphere: A study of their Observation, Characterization and Wave Sources in the Solar Wind
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This thesis is an observational study of field line resonances (FLRs), between 0.5-5 mHz, in the Earth’s magnetosphere, and their correlation with Ultra Low Frequency (ULF) waves in the solar wind. The mechanisms for these phenomena are not yet completely understood and there is still great...