Magnetic Reconnection Controlled by Multi-Hierarchy Physics in an Open System

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  • HORIUCHI Ritoku
    National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki 509-5292, Japan The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Toki 509-5292, Japan
  • 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, Toki 509-5292, Japan
  • MORITAKA Toseo
    Kobe University, Nada, Kobe 657-8501, Japan

Abstract

Multi-hierarchy physics in magnetic reconnection is investigated using two kinds of numerical simulation models: the electromagnetic particle simulation model for an open system (PASMO) and the magnetohydrodynamic and particle-in-cell (MHD-PIC) interlocked model for the multi-hierarchy simulation of magnetic reconnection. A series of simulation studies using the PASMO code have disclosed that ion and electron dissipation regions form inside a kinetic regime in which ion and electron meandering orbit effects are crucial in triggering collisionless reconnection (CR). Anomalous resistivity leading to CR is also generated through the excitation of ion-ion kink instability in an ion-scale current sheet. We confirmed that the MHD-PIC interlocked model, based on the domain decomposition and multi-time-step methods, can describe collisionless driven reconnection in an open system as a multi-hierarchy phenomenon with high accuracy.

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  • Plasma and Fusion Research

    Plasma and Fusion Research 5 S2006-S2006, 2010

    The Japan Society of Plasma Science and Nuclear Fusion Research

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