3-D VPIC simulation of an vortex-induced reconnection event observed by MMS

Nakamura, Takuma; Daughton, William

doi:10.13139/OLCF/1395321

Title: 3-D VPIC simulation of an vortex-induced reconnection event observed by MMS

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The data set consists of a 3-D fully kinetic (VPIC) simulation of an in-situ observation event at the Earth's magnetopause by the NASA MMS spacecraft on September 8, 2015. The results show a turbulent development of magnetic reconnection induced by the Kelvin-Helmohltz vortex, and resulting significantly efficient plasma mixing across the magnetopause. The vortex-induced reconnection signatures are well consistent with the MMS observations. These results are published in some scientific journals such as Nature Communications. Fortran unformatted files with 1024x1536x512 cells, which have been compressed from original ones with 2048x3072x1024 cells, are archived for selected time slices of field and moment data shown in these papers.

Authors:: Nakamura, Takuma; Daughton, William

Publication Date:: 2016-01-01

DOE Contract Number:: DE-AC05-00OR22725

Research Org.:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Austrian Academy of Sciences

Sponsoring Org.:: Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) (SC-21)

Subject:: 58 GEOSCIENCES; 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS

Keywords:: Magnetosphere, Magnetic reconnection, Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, mixing, kinetic simulaiton, VPIC code

OSTI Identifier:: 1395321

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.13139/OLCF/1395321

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                    Nakamura, Takuma, and Daughton, William. 3-D VPIC simulation of an vortex-induced reconnection event observed by MMS.  United States: N. p., 2016. 
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                    Nakamura, Takuma, & Daughton, William. 3-D VPIC simulation of an vortex-induced reconnection event observed by MMS.  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.13139/OLCF/1395321

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                    Nakamura, Takuma, and Daughton, William. 2016.  
"3-D VPIC simulation of an vortex-induced reconnection event observed by MMS".  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.13139/OLCF/1395321.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1395321. Pub date:Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2016

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  title        = {3-D VPIC simulation of an vortex-induced reconnection event observed by MMS},

  author       = {Nakamura, Takuma and Daughton, William},

  abstractNote = {The data set consists of a 3-D fully kinetic (VPIC) simulation of an in-situ observation event at the Earth's magnetopause by the NASA MMS spacecraft on September 8, 2015. The results show a turbulent development of magnetic reconnection induced by the Kelvin-Helmohltz vortex, and resulting significantly efficient plasma mixing across the magnetopause. The vortex-induced reconnection signatures are well consistent with the MMS observations. These results are published in some scientific journals such as Nature Communications. Fortran unformatted files with 1024x1536x512 cells, which have been compressed from original ones with 2048x3072x1024 cells, are archived for selected time slices of field and moment data shown in these papers.},

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  place        = {United States},

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