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GeospaceEnvironmentalModeling (GEM)Magnetic ReconnectionChallenge J. BirnJ. F. DrakeM. A. Shay2001 год

Geospace Environmental Modeling (GEM) Magnetic Reconnection Challenge
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Аннотация: The Geospace Environmental Modeling (GEM) Reconnection Challenge project is presented and the important results, which are presented in a series of companion papers, are summarized. Magnetic reconnection is studied in a simple Harris sheet configuration with a specified set of initial conditions, including a finite amplitude, magnetic island perturbation to trigger the dynamics. The evolution of the system is explored with a broad variety of codes, ranging from fully electromagnetic particle in cell (PIC) codes to conventional resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) codes, and the results are compared. The goal is to identify the essential physics which is required to model collisionless magnetic reconnection. All models that include the Hall effect in the generalized Ohm's law produce essentially indistinguishable rates of reconnection, corresponding to nearly Alfvénic inflow velocities. Thus the rate of reconnection is insensitive to the specific mechanism which breaks the frozen‐in condition, whether resistivity, electron inertia, or electron thermal motion. The reconnection rate in the conventional resistive MHD model, in contrast, is dramatically smaller unless a large localized or current dependent resistivity is used. The Hall term brings the dynamics of whistler waves into the system. The quadratic dispersion property of whistlers (higher phase speed at smaller spatial scales) is the key to understanding these results. The implications of these results for trying to model the global dynamics of the magnetosphere are discussed.
Год издания: 2001
Авторы: J. Birn, J. F. Drake, M. A. Shay, B. N. Rogers, R. E. Denton, M. Hesse, M. M. Kuznetsova, Z. W., A. Bhattacharjee, A. Otto, P. L. Pritchett
Издательство: American Geophysical Union
Источник: Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
Ключевые слова: Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics, Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics, Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
Другие ссылки: Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (PDF)
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (HTML)
CiteSeer X (The Pennsylvania State University) (PDF)
CiteSeer X (The Pennsylvania State University) (HTML)