Speaker
Description
The computational model kglobal was developed to explore energetic
particle production via magnetic reconnection in macroscale systems.
It is based on the observation that the production of energetic
particles during reconnection is controlled by Fermi reflection in
large-scale magnetic fields and not by parallel electric fields
localized in kinetic scale boundary layers. Earlier work with kglobal
has produced the first self-consistent simulations of non-thermal
electron acceleration during reconnection in a macroscale system.
Although the original formulation of kglobal only treated the
nonthermal energization of electrons, the equations can be extended to
include ions as long as they remain magnetized so that a guiding
center description remains valid. In this poster we discuss the
appropriate extension of the kglobal equations and preliminary results
from the simulations.
