Recent Publications

Is Nightside Outflow Required in the Generation of Magnetospheric Sawtooth Oscialltions?

Published in Geophysical Research Letters, 2020

This paper is a numerical experiment on the role of ionospheric O+ ion outflow on sawtooth oscilattions, namely whether the location of the source outflow population determines the occurence of sawtooth oscillations. The short answer is no

Recommended citation: Zhang, B., Brambles, O. J., Lotko, W., & Lyon, J. G. ( 2020). Is nightside outflow required to induce magnetospheric sawtooth oscillations. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2019GL086419. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL086419 https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL086419

GAMERA: A Three-dimensional Finite-volume MHD Solver for Non-orthogonal Curvilinear Geometries

Published in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 2019

This paper is about the number 1. The number 2 is left for future work.

Recommended citation: Zhang, B., et al. (2019), " GAMERA: A three-dimensional finite-volume MHD solver in non-orthogonal curvilinear geometries." the Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 244(1), 20. doi:10.3847/1538-4365/ab3a4c http://academicpages.github.io/files/Zhang_2019_ApJS_244_20.pdf

Conservative averaging reconstruction (Ring Average) techniques for finite- volume MHD solvers with axis singularity

Published in Journal of Computational Physics, 2018

This paper is about the treatment of axis singularity for three dimensional MHD solvers with spherical polar geometry

Recommended citation: Zhang, B., et al. (2018), Conservative averaging reconstruction (Ring Average) techniques for finite- volume MHD solvers with axis singularity, J. Comp. Phys., Volume 376, 2019, Pages 276-294, doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2018.08.020. http://academicpages.github.io/files/paper4.pdf

Asymmetric Kelvin-Helmholtz instability at Jupiter’s magnetopause boundary: Implications for corotation-dominated systems

Published in Geophysical Research Letters, 2018

This paper is about the KH instability at Jovian magnetupause boundary

Recommended citation: Zhang, B., Delamere, P. A., Ma, X., Burkholder, B., Wiltberger, M., Lyon, J. G., Sorathia, K. A. (2018). Asymmetric Kelvin-Helmholtz instability at Jupiter’s magnetopause boundary: Implications for corotation-dominated systems. Geophys. Res. Lett, 45, 56–63. doi:10.1002/2017GL076315 http://academicpages.github.io/files/paper4.pdf