The island coalescence problem: Scaling of reconnection in extended fluid models including higher-order moments

Ng, Jonathan; Huang, Yi -Min; Hakim, Ammar; Bhattacharjee, A.; Stanier, Adam; Daughton, William; Wang, Liang; Germaschewski, Kai

doi:10.1063/1.4935302

Title: The island coalescence problem: Scaling of reconnection in extended fluid models including higher-order moments

Journal Article · Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 EST 2015 · Physics of Plasmas

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935302· OSTI ID:1256589

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Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH (United States)

As modeling of collisionless magnetic reconnection in most space plasmas with realistic parameters is beyond the capability of today's simulations, due to the separation between global and kinetic length scales, it is important to establish scaling relations in model problems so as to extrapolate to realistic scales. Furthermore, large scale particle-in-cell simulations of island coalescence have shown that the time averaged reconnection rate decreases with system size, while fluid systems at such large scales in the Hall regime have not been studied. Here, we perform the complementary resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD), Hall MHD, and two fluid simulations using a ten-moment model with the same geometry. In contrast to the standard Harris sheet reconnection problem, Hall MHD is insufficient to capture the physics of the reconnection region. Additionally, motivated by the results of a recent set of hybrid simulations which show the importance of ion kinetics in this geometry, we evaluate the efficacy of the ten-moment model in reproducing such results.

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Research Organization:: Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AGS-1056898; AGS-138944; AGS-14606169; PHY-1229408; NNX13AK31G; AC02-05CH11231; AC02-09CH11466; SC0006670; DESC0006670

OSTI ID:: 1256589

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1225250

Report Number(s):: PPPL-5187; PHPAEN

Journal Information:: Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 22, Issue 11; ISSN 1070-664X

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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