Conveners
Afternoon I
- Paul Cassak (West Virginia University)
Dr
Huishan Fu
(Beihang University)
10/08/2015, 15:45
Workshop, August 10-14
Invited
In this study, we apply a new method—the first-order Taylor expansion
(FOTE)—to
find magnetic nulls and reconstruct magnetic field topology, in order to
use it with
the data from the forth-coming MMS mission. We compare this method
with the
previously used Poincare index (PI), and find that they are generally
consistent,
except that the PI method can only find a null inside the...
Elin Eriksson
(Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden and Uppsala University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala, Sweden)
10/08/2015, 16:10
Workshop, August 10-14
Oral
Regions with vanishing magnetic field, also referred to as
magnetic nulls, are of high
interest in plasma physics. Near magnetic nulls particles
become unmagnetized and
can by interacting with electric fields be accelerated up to
high energies. Magnetic
nulls have been observed and studied before using in-situ
observations for selected
events. Here we present the first...
Dr
Vyacheslav Olshevsky
(KU Leuven)
10/08/2015, 16:35
Workshop, August 10-14
Invited
Fully kinetic electromagnetic particle-in-cell code iPic3D is used to
model magnetic reconnection in
the
variety of plasma configurations. We apply Poincare index technique to
locate and identify the
topological characteristics of the magnetic null points in different three-
dimensional simulations.
The relevance of magnetic nulls to energy dissipation, turbulence and
plasma...
