GEM reconnection challenge: Implicit kinetic simulations with the physical mass ratio

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 23, 2002, Pages

  Ricci, Paolo ^a   Lapenta, Giovanni ^a,b   Brackbill, J U ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

COARSER GRID; ELECTRON PRESSURES; ENVIRONMENT MODELING; KINETIC SIMULATION; MAGNETIC RECONNECTIONS; MASS RATIO; PARTICLE-IN-CELL CODE; STANDARD MASS;

PLASMA SIMULATION;

EID: 0036946039     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015314     Document Type: Article

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