Macroscale Particle Simulation of Externally Driven Magnetic Reconnection
Abstract
Externally driven reconnection, assuming an anomalous particle collision model, is numerically studied by means of a 2.5D macroscale particle simulation code in which the field and particle motions are solved self-consistently. Explosive magnetic reconnection and energy conversion are observed as a result of slow shock formation. Electron and ion distribution functions exhibit large bulk acceleration and heating of the plasma. Simulation runs with different collision parameters suggest that the development of reconnection, particle acceleration and heating do not significantly depend on the parameters of the collision model.
- Publication:
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Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
- Pub Date:
- March 1992
- DOI:
- 10.1143/JPSJ.61.849
- Bibcode:
- 1992JPSJ...61..849M
- Keywords:
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- Magnetic Field Reconnection;
- Particle Collisions;
- Plasma Acceleration;
- Plasma Heating;
- Shock Waves;
- Electron Acceleration;
- Electron Distribution;
- Energy Conversion;
- Ion Distribution;
- Numerical Analysis;
- Particle Motion;
- Plasma Physics