[PDF] Top 20 Collisionless magnetic reconnection: analytical model and PIC simulation comparison

... an analytical model of self-consistent steady-state collisionless magnetic reconnection in an incompressible plasma was developed based on the Grad-Shafranov equation for the ... See full document

... why magnetic reconnec- tion in nature proceeds on faster time scale than the resistive diffusion timescale predicted by the Sweet-Parker model in the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) ...all simulation ... See full document

... Vlasov simulation of the Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) Magnetic Re- connection Challenge is ...the PIC and the Vlasov ...to PIC simulations, the Vlasov code does not suffer from ... See full document

... MHD model is completely different from the charge sep- aration mechanism obtained from the driven reconnection using the full kinetic PIC model presented in this ...brid simulation with ... See full document

... that magnetic reconnection ob- served in various natural systems is controlled by com- mon or similar physical processes, regardless of large dif- ferences in magnetic configurations and ... See full document

... computer simulation (Arzner and Scholer, 2001), magnetotail reconnection was studied with emphasis on the kinetic (particle) ...the magnetic fields. Examples of time series of the magnetic ... See full document

... crustal magnetic anomalies offers a comprehensive long-term data set of observations of small-scale magnetic fi elds and their interaction with the solar ...) collisionless shocks and miniature ... See full document

... crustal magnetic anomalies offers a comprehensive long-term data set of observations of small-scale magnetic fi elds and their interaction with the solar ...) collisionless shocks and miniature ... See full document

... y magnetic field component is critical for the observation of ESW at the day- side magnetopause boundary for ...ambient magnetic field, and GEOTAIL has only two sets of orthogonal electric field antennas ... See full document

... fast magnetic reconnection in thin plane and homogeneous collisionless current ...three-dimensional PIC simula- tions, resolving the fully electromagnetic electron dynamics in the current ... See full document

... The simulation model by the PASMO mimics the boxed area drawn by the dotted line, which is the region near the contact point of the merg- ing torus plasmas in an ST device, because the model im- ... See full document

... to magnetic field ...of magnetic field lines no particles are involved. The magnetic flux is quantised, inde- pendent of the presence or absence of ... See full document

... as magnetic field line reconnection, because of different parameter ratios and most importantly, because of different boundary ...characteristic reconnection time is shorter than the electron-ion ... See full document

... the simulation, the ratio is well below unity, and begins to increase, eventually becoming greater than unity at a time of around t ¼ ...anti-parallel reconnection, but instead, we see initially primarily ... See full document

... in collisionless space plasmas like those near the magnetopause and in the geo- magnetic tail during reconnection is reexamined making use of the division of particle orbits into waiting orbits and ... See full document

... Once magnetic reconnection takes place, a generated fast plasma flow carries away the plasma near the reconnection point towards the ...the reconnection electric field reaches its saturation ... See full document

... and magnetic field in the ...two-dimensional collisionless reconnec- tion model. Assuming the reconnection process to be pla- nar, we first need to identify the appropriate basis to project ... See full document

... localized magnetic field and density holes in the solar wind ...the magnetic field and the plasma density, and by a strong increase of the plasma temperature inside the magnetic and density ...the ... See full document

... leave but also enter the system across the boundary. Infor- mation about outgoing particles can be obtained directly by observing their motion at the boundary. The problems in the downstream boundary condition of ... See full document

... A model of time-dependent Petschek-type reconnection of arbitrary strong magnetic fields is presented where all necessary relativistic effects are taken into ...account. Reconnection is supposed ... See full document