It is known that the electrodynamic coupling of plasma flows with a magnetic field and background plasma leads to the generation of field-aligned currents that cause many effects in the auroral regions of the Earth during magnetic storms and sub-storms. Much less is known about the influence of field-aligned currents on the dynamics and evolution of plasma flows themselves. The study of this effect in space is complicated by the scale of the phenomenon and requires simultaneous measurements in various regions of the magnetosphere and ionosphere using a large number of satellites. In addition, taking into account the non-stationary nature of these processes, an extremely complex and expensive experiment must be carried out over a long time period. At the same time, such studies can be quite effective in controlled laboratory and ionospheric plasma experiments. This review is devoted to exploring how the generation and evolution of field-aligned currents influences the state and dynamics of plasma flows moving in the magnetic field.

众所周知，等离子体流与磁场和背景等离子体的电动耦合会导致磁场对齐电流的产生，这些电流在磁暴和亚暴期间对地球的极光区域造成许多影响。关于场对齐电流对等离子体流本身的动力学和演化的影响知之甚少。太空中这种效应的研究因该现象的规模而变得复杂，需要使用大量卫星在磁层和电离层的各个区域同时进行测量。此外，考虑到这些过程的非平稳性，必须在很长一段时间内进行极其复杂和昂贵的实验。同时，这种研究在受控实验室和电离层等离子体实验中非常有效。本综述致力于探索磁场对齐电流的产生和演变如何影响在磁场中移动的等离子体流的状态和动力学。