Table A.1
The parameters of the simulated cases.
| Inflow velocity | u0 = 0.3 | 403 km s-1 |
| Thermal speed | υ0 = 0.02 | 26.9 km s-1 |
| Scattering time | τ = 0.833 | 0.13 s |
| Box size | Xmax = 300 | 10 Re |
| Total time | Tmax = 2400 | 6.3 min |
| Time step size | dt = 1/30 | 0.0053 s |
| Number of zones | nx = 600 | ... |
| Initial particles per cell | n0 = 650 | ... |
| FEB distance | Xfeb = 90 | 3 Re |
Notes. Scaling used a box size =10 Re (where Re represents the Earth’s radius) and the box frame inflow velocity u0 = 403 km s-1. This implies the following scale factors for distance, velocity, and time: Xscale = 10 Re/300, vscale = 403 km s-1/0.3, and tscale = xscale/vscale. Here, the Mach number M = 11.6. Dimensionless or normalized numbers are used in the text to describe our simulations, except for specifically highlighted examples (adapted from Knerr et al. 1996).
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