Kinetic Modeling of Magnetospheres
Space Physics
2021-09-15 v1 Computational Physics
Plasma Physics
Abstract
This paper presents the state of the art of kinetic modeling techniques for simulating plasma kinetic dynamics in magnetospheres. We describe the critical numerical techniques for enabling large-scale kinetic simulations of magnetospheres: parameter scaling, implicit Particle-in-Cell schemes, and fluid-kinetic coupling. We show an application of these techniques to study particle acceleration and heating in asymmetric magnetic reconnection in the Ganymede magnetosphere.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2012.06669,
title = {Kinetic Modeling of Magnetospheres},
author = {Stefano Markidis and Vyacheslav Olshevsky and Gabor Toth and Yuxi Chen and Ivy Peng and Giovanni Lapenta and Tamas Gombosi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.06669},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
Preprint of accepted chapter in the AGU book "Magnetospheres in the solar system"