Two-dimensional fully kinetic simulations of driven magnetic reconnection with boundary conditions relevant to the magnetic reconnection experiment

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Dorfman, S ^a   Daughton, W ^b   Roytershteyn, V ^b   Ji, H ^a   Ren, Y ^c   Yamada, M ^a  

^a PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; ELECTRONS; GEOPHYSICS; IONS; PLASMA SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ACTUAL EXPERIMENTS; COLLISIONLESS; COULOMB COLLISIONS; DIMENSIONAL EFFECTS; DOWNSTREAM BOUNDARIES; ELECTRON LAYERS; ELECTRON MASSES; FIXED SETS; FLUX CORES; GLOBAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; HIGHLY SENSITIVES; INFLOW RATES; ION KINETIC; KINETIC SIMULATIONS; MAGNETIC RECONNECTION EXPERIMENTS; MAGNETIC RECONNECTIONS; MASS RATIOS; QUADRUPOLE FIELDS; SIMULATED STRUCTURES; SIMULATION MODELS; TOROIDAL CURRENTS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 55149097698     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2991361     Document Type: Article

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