Nature Communications (Nov 2017)
Turbulent mass transfer caused by vortex induced reconnection in collisionless magnetospheric plasmas
Abstract
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.