Computing the reconnection rate in turbulent kinetic layers by using electron mixing to identify topology

Daughton, W.; Nakamura, T. K.  M.; Karimabadi, H.; Roytershteyn, V.; Loring, B.

doi:10.1063/1.4875730

Title: Computing the reconnection rate in turbulent kinetic layers by using electron mixing to identify topology

Journal Article · Thu May 15 00:00:00 EDT 2014 · Physics of Plasmas

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4875730· OSTI ID:1565178

Daughton, W. ^[1]; Nakamura, T. K. M. ^[1]; Karimabadi, H. ^[2]; Roytershteyn, V. ^[3]; Loring, B. ^[4]

Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States). Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering; SciberQuest, Inc., Del Mar, CA (United States)
SciberQuest, Inc., Del Mar, CA (United States)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Three-dimensional kinetic simulations of magnetic reconnection for parameter regimes relevant to the magnetopause current layer feature the development of turbulence, driven by the magnetic and velocity shear, and dominated by coherent structures including flux ropes, current sheets, and flow vortices. In this paper, we propose a new approach for computing the global reconnection rate in the presence of this complexity. The mixing of electrons originating from separate sides of the magnetopause layer is used as a proxy to rapidly identify the magnetic topology and track the evolution of magnetic flux. The details of this method are illustrated for an asymmetric current layer relevant to the subsolar magnetopause and for a flow shear dominated layer relevant to the lower latitude magnetopause. While the three-dimensional reconnection rates show a number of interesting differences relative to the corresponding two-dimensional simulations, the time scale for the energy conversion remains very similar. These results suggest that the mixing of field lines between topologies is more easily influenced by kinetic turbulence than the physics responsible for the energy conversion.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

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OSTI ID:: 1565178

Journal Information:: Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 21, Issue 5; ISSN 1070-664X

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