First Demonstration of Collisionless Driven Reconnection in a Multi-Hierarchy Simulation

• USAMI Shunsuke

  National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki 509-5292, Japan

• OHTANI Hiroaki

  National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki 509-5292, Japan The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Toki 509-5292, Japan

• HORIUCHI Ritoku

  National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki 509-5292, Japan The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Toki 509-5292, Japan

• DEN Mitsue

  National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Koganei 184-8795, Japan

Abstract

A multi-hierarchy simulation model for magnetic reconnection studies is developed in which macroscopic and microscopic physics are expressed consistently and simultaneously. We are the first to have successfully demonstrated collisionless driven reconnection in the framework of a multi-hierarchy model. Magnetic reconnection is found to occur in a micro-hierarchy upon plasma injection from a macro-hierarchy.

Journal

• Plasma and Fusion Research

  Plasma and Fusion Research 4 049-049, 2009

  The Japan Society of Plasma Science and Nuclear Fusion Research

Keywords

• multi-hierarchy simulation
• magnetic reconnection
• MHD
• PIC

Details

• CRID: 1390001205254897920
• NII Article ID: 130000168734
• DOI: 10.1585/pfr.4.049
• ISSN: 18806821
• HANDLE: 10655/8960
• Web Site: https://nifs-repository.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/311
• Web Site: http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/pfr/4/0/4_0_049/_pdf
• Text Lang: en
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