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Kinetic plasma turbulence during the nonlinear stage of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability
Koen Kemel, Pierre Henri, Giovanni Lapenta +2
Using a full kinetic, implicit particle-in-cell code, iPiC3D, we studied the properties of plasma kinetic turbulence, such as would be found at the interface between the solar wind…
Signatures of Secondary Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection Driven by Kink Instability of a Flux Rope
S. Markidis, G. Lapenta, G. L. Delzanno +5
The kinetic features of secondary magnetic reconnection in a single flux rope undergoing internal kink instability are studied by means of three-dimensional Particle-in-Cell simula…
Separatrices: the crux of reconnection
Giovanni Lapenta, Stefano Markidis, Andrey Divin +2
Reconnection is one of the key processes in astrophysical and laboratory plasmas: it is the opposite of a dynamo. Looking at energy, a dynamo transforms kinetic energy in magnetic…
Electromagnetic Energy Conversion in Downstream Fronts from 3D Kinetic Reconnection
Giovanni Lapenta, Martin Goldman, David Newman +2
The electromagnetic energy equation is analyzed term by term in a 3D simulation of kinetic reconnection previously reported by \citet{vapirev2013formation}. The evolution presents…