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New expression for collisionless magnetic reconnection rate

Author(s) -

Alex Klimas

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

physics of plasmas

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75

H-Index - 160

eISSN - 1089-7674

pISSN - 1070-664X

DOI - 10.1063/1.4917068

Subject(s) - physics , magnetic reconnection , diffusion , plasma , simple (philosophy) , electron , boundary value problem , statistical physics , computational physics , classical mechanics , boundary (topology) , quantum electrodynamics , quantum mechanics , mathematical analysis , philosophy , epistemology , mathematics

For 2D, symmetric, anti-parallel, collisionless magnetic reconnection, new expressions for the reconnection rate in the electron diffusion region are introduced. It is shown that these expressions can be derived in just a few simple steps from a physically intuitive starting point; the derivations are given in their entirety, and the validity of each step is confirmed. The predictions of these expressions are compared to the results of several long-duration, open-boundary particle-in-cell reconnection simulations to demonstrate excellent agreement.

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