Time-dependent hydrodynamic equations were solved in order to study the refilling of plasmaspheric flux tube depleted during magnetic storms. Depending on the initial density profiles in the depleted flux tuves, a variety of shock formations occur during the early stage (~1 hour) of the refilling. After this early stage, an important feature of the flow is the formation of a pair of shocks, which propagate down, one in each hemisphere. The refilling occurs by the downward propagating shocks with speeds 3Ti, where Ti is the ion temperature. |