Magnetic Reconnection in Plasmas

Session

Afternoon IV

44

13 Aug 2015, 15:45

132:028 (Nordita, Stockholm)

Conveners

Afternoon IV

• Paolo Ricci (EPFL)

329. Reconnection in Vlasiator: 1 The global system

Prof. Minna Palmroth (Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland)

13/08/2015, 15:45

Workshop, August 10-14

Invited

Vlasiator (http://vlasiator.fmi.fi) is a newly developed, global hybrid- Vlasov simulation, which solves the six-dimensional phase space utilising the Vlasov equation for protons, while electrons are treated as a charge-neutralising fluid. The outcome of the simulation is a global reproduction of ion-scale physics where the generation of physical features can be followed in time...

335. First global 3D two-way coupled MHD-EPIC simulation of a magnetosphere: Ganymede

Dr Stefano Markidis (KTH)

13/08/2015, 16:10

Workshop, August 10-14

Oral

We present the first 3D global simulation of Ganymede’s magnetosphere in a unified framework coupling the fluid and kinetic models. An MHD model describes the global interaction of solar wind with Ganymede’s magnetosphere over the whole simulation domain. A kinetic model is used only in the selected space regions, where kinetic effects dominate and MHD description fails. In...