Speaker
Dr
Kittipat Malakit
(Thammasat University)
Description
In magnetized plasma systems, magnetic reconnection is the most important process in converting the magnetic energy into the kinetic energy of plasma. It is conventionally thought that the outflow speed and the reconnection rate depend only on the strength of the upstream magnetic field and the upstream plasma density. However, using fully kinetic particle-in-cell simulations of collisionless reconnection with different values of temperature, we show surprising results that, unlike the conventional belief, the outflow speed and the reconnection rate decrease when the temperature increases. The physics of these unexpected results will also be discussed.
Primary authors
Dr
Kittipat Malakit
(Thammasat University)
Ms
Rungployphan Kieokaew
(Mahidol University)
Mr
Colby Haggerty
(University of Delaware)
Prof.
David Ruffolo
(Mahidol University)
Prof.
Michael Shay
(University of Delaware)
Dr
Paul Cassak
(West Virginia University)
