UDC 533.95+537.84+537.814 We study further a model of the expanding plasmasphere. Possible structures of the spatial distribution of the electric current, which can exist within the framework of this model, are found. The obtained results are used to demonstrate the necessity of refinement of the model. The simplest variant of such a refinement, which consists in the transition from the two-layer magnetosphere to the three-layer one, is presented. It is shown for this variant that the structure of the spatial distribution of the electric current depends on some arbitrary functions whose form can be chosen using qualitative considerations. The results of using some methods of choosing such functions are demonstrated. In the first part of this work [1], we developed a model of the expanding plasmasphere for the Earth and other planets having magnetic fields to continue analysis of the problems considered in [2–4]. Partially, the model was described in the conference proceedings [5]. The self-consistent axisymmetric problem about of plasma configurations around a rotating magnetized sphere was solved in the assumption of azimuthal and radial motions of its plasma shell consisting of two parts: the inner region confined by the shell L = L∗ (L = r/(R sin 2 ϑ), in which R is the sphere radius), in which the pressure is isotropic and the motion is a purely azimuthal solid-state rotation, and the outer region, in which the radial motion of the medium takes place along with the differential azimuthal rotation, the plasma pressure is anisotropic, and viscosity is insignificant. This second part of the work deals with search for the structure of the spatial distribution of the electric current on the basis of the solution found in the first part. In this case, the obtained results make it necessary to introduce additional modifications to the model in order to ensure the applicability of the chosen simplifications. The transition from the two-layer plasma shell to the three-layer one with a purely radial motion in the outer region is considered the simplest variant of such changes. Possible structures of the spatial current distribution, which were found for this model, are determined by a number of arbitrary functions and cannot be specified uniquely within the framework of this model, but can be chosen using qualitative considerations. The results corresponding to the simplest methods of choosing these functions are presented. 2. FORM OF THE MODEL SOLUTION IN THE TWO-LAYER PLASMASPHERE
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