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Singh et al. 1986
Singh, N., Schunk, R.W. and Thiemann, H. (1986). Temporal features of the refilling of a plasma flux tube. Journal of Geophysical Research 91: doi: 10.1029/JA080i012p13433. issn: 0148-0227.

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.

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