Coupled Fluid-kinetic Global Simulations of Saturn's Magnetopause Dynamics


Xianzhe Jia1, Yuxi Chen2, Gabor Toth3, James A Slavin4, Margaret Kivelson5 and Tamas I Gombosi3, (1)University of Michigan, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (2)Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, (3)University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (4)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (5)University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States