2016/05/18 by Yi‐Hsin Liu, M. Hesse, Liu, Yi-Hsin +7
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics #Magnetic confinement fusion research #Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph) #Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics #Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1605.05654
openalex publication_date 2016/05/18 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
A model of global magnetic reconnection rate in relativistic collisionless plasmas is developed and validated by the fully kinetic simulation. Through considering the force balance at the upstream and downstream of the diffusion region, we show that the global rate is bounded by a value ∼ 0.3 even when the local rate goes up to ∼ O(1) and the local inflow speed approaches the speed of light in strongly magnetized plasmas. The derived model is general and can be applied to magnetic reconnection under widely different circumstances.