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Gyrofluid simulations of collisionless reconnection in the presence of diamagnetic effects
2010
Journal of Physics, Conference Series
The effects of the ion Larmor radius on magnetic reconnection are investigated by means of numerical simulations, with a Hamiltonian gyrofluid model. In the linear regime, it is found that ion diamagnetic effects decrease the growth rate of the dominant mode. Increasing ion temperature tends to make the magnetic islands propagate in the ion diamagnetic drift direction. In the nonlinear regime, diamagnetic effects reduce the final width of the island. Unlike the electron density, the guiding
doi:10.1088/1742-6596/260/1/012020
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