Conveners
Post-noon V
- Pierre Henri (CNRS-Orleans)
Dr
Gian Luca Delzanno
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
8/14/15, 2:00 PM
Workshop, August 10-14
Invited
The Vlasov-Maxwell equations are a fundamental model for the
microscopic evolution of
magnetized, collisionless plasmas. Because of the wide disparity of
spatial and
temporal scales typical of plasmas, their numerical solution is
extremely challenging
and is a very active area of research.
There are three main numerical approaches to the solution of the...
Yann Pfau-Kempf
(Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland)
8/14/15, 2:25 PM
Workshop, August 10-14
Oral
The Finnish Meteorological Institute's hybrid-Vlasov model
Vlasiator
(http://vlasiator.fmi.fi), which couples kinetic ion physics
through Vlasov's
equation with charge-neutralising fluid electrons, is used to
model self-consistently
the solar wind-magnetosphere interaction in two spatial and
three velocity
dimensions. Recent simulations in the polar plane include
southward IMF in...
Mr
Rishi Mistry
(Imperial College London)
8/14/15, 2:50 PM
Workshop, August 10-14
Oral
Magnetic reconnection at the magnetopause and magnetotail
affect many magnetospheric
dynamics including the onset of magnetospheric sub-storms
and space weather effects, and the
balance of energy in the magnetosphere. In these
environments, however, asymmetric boundary
conditions and imprecise knowledge of the motion of
reconnection exhausts relative to spacecraft
affect the...
