Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Turbulent mass transfer caused by vortex induced reconnection in collisionless magnetospheric plasmas

  • T. K. M. Nakamura,
  • H. Hasegawa,
  • W. Daughton,
  • S. Eriksson,
  • W. Y. Li,
  • R. Nakamura

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01579-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Vortex-induced reconnection originates from non-linear vortex flows due to Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in the Earth’s magnetosphere. Here, the authors perform a large-scale kinetic simulation to unveil dynamics of the vortex-induced reconnection and resulting turbulent mixing process.