Role of Ion Kinetic Physics in the Interaction of Magnetic Flux Ropes
Abstract
To explain many natural magnetized plasma phenomena, it is crucial to understand how rates of collisionless magnetic reconnection scale in large magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) scale systems. Simulations of isolated current sheets conclude such rates are independent of system size and can be reproduced by the Hall-MHD model, but neglect sheet formation and coupling to MHD scales. Here in this study, it is shown for the problem of flux-rope merging, which includes this formation and coupling, that the Hall-MHD model fails to reproduce the kinetic results. The minimum sufficient model must retain ion kinetic effects, which set the ion diffusion region geometry and give time-averaged rates that reduce significantly with system size, leading to different global evolution in large systems.
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- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- SciberQuest, Inc., Del Mar, CA (United States)
- Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
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- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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- 1457252
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- OSTI ID: 1224134
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-15-25385
Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007; PRLTAO; TRN: US1901335
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- AC52-06NA25396
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- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 115; Journal Issue: 17; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
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- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
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Stanier, Adam John, Daughton, William Scott, Chacon, Luis, Karimabadi, Homa, Ng, Jonathan, Huang, Yi-Minh, Hakim, Ammar, and Bhattacharjee, Amitava. Role of Ion Kinetic Physics in the Interaction of Magnetic Flux Ropes. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.175004.
Stanier, Adam John, Daughton, William Scott, Chacon, Luis, Karimabadi, Homa, Ng, Jonathan, Huang, Yi-Minh, Hakim, Ammar, & Bhattacharjee, Amitava. Role of Ion Kinetic Physics in the Interaction of Magnetic Flux Ropes. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.175004
Stanier, Adam John, Daughton, William Scott, Chacon, Luis, Karimabadi, Homa, Ng, Jonathan, Huang, Yi-Minh, Hakim, Ammar, and Bhattacharjee, Amitava. Wed .
"Role of Ion Kinetic Physics in the Interaction of Magnetic Flux Ropes". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.175004. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1457252.
@article{osti_1457252,
title = {Role of Ion Kinetic Physics in the Interaction of Magnetic Flux Ropes},
author = {Stanier, Adam John and Daughton, William Scott and Chacon, Luis and Karimabadi, Homa and Ng, Jonathan and Huang, Yi-Minh and Hakim, Ammar and Bhattacharjee, Amitava},
abstractNote = {To explain many natural magnetized plasma phenomena, it is crucial to understand how rates of collisionless magnetic reconnection scale in large magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) scale systems. Simulations of isolated current sheets conclude such rates are independent of system size and can be reproduced by the Hall-MHD model, but neglect sheet formation and coupling to MHD scales. Here in this study, it is shown for the problem of flux-rope merging, which includes this formation and coupling, that the Hall-MHD model fails to reproduce the kinetic results. The minimum sufficient model must retain ion kinetic effects, which set the ion diffusion region geometry and give time-averaged rates that reduce significantly with system size, leading to different global evolution in large systems.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.175004},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 17,
volume = 115,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Oct 21 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Wed Oct 21 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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FIG. 1: Reconnection rate, ER, against t/tA for Hall-MHD (red), hybrid (purple) and fully-kinetic PIC (blue) runs with λ = 5di and Ti0 = Te0.
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