Browsing Physics by Author "Swift, D"

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Generation of near-Earth reconnection by divergent flows in the plasma sheet

Lin, Y; Swift, D (2022-10-04)

[1] A global two-dimensional hybrid simulation is carried out to study the evolution of the near-Earth plasma sheet. It is shown that reconnection X lines and plasmoids can be generated by diverging flows in the plasma ...

A two-dimensional hybrid simulation of the magnetotail reconnection layer

Lin, Y; Swift, D (2022-09-29)

Two-dimensional (2-D) hybrid simulations are carried out to study the structure of the reconnection layer in the distant magnetotail. In the simulation an initial current sheet separates the two lobes with antiparallel ...