Kinetic Vlasov simulations
Physical problems: Magnetic reconnection, current sheet instabilities
Numerical code: (Eulerian) Vlasov code
Relevant publications:
- Lee, K.-W., & Büchner, J. (2010). Anomalous momentum transport and plasma heating in a collisionless return-current beam plasma system: Multifluid and kinetic approaches. Physics of Plasmas, 17(4), 42308. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3389137
- Lee, K.-W., Büchner, J., & Elkina, N. (2008). Collisionless Transport of Energetic Electrons in the Solar Corona at current-free double layers. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 478, 889. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20078419
- Büchner, J., & Elkina, N. (2006). Anomalous resistivity of current-driven isothermal plasmas due to phase space structuring. Physics of Plasmas, 13(8), 82304. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2209611
- Elkina, N., & Büchner, J. (2006). A new conservative unsplit method for the solution of the Vlasov equation. Journal of Computational Physics, 213(2), 862–875. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2005.09.023
- Silin, I., & Büchner, J. (2006). Three-dimensional Vlasov-code simulations of magnetopause-like current sheets. Advances in Space Research, 37(7), 1354–1362. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2005.05.025
- Büchner, J., & Elkina, N. (2005). Vlasov Code Simulation of Anomalous Resistivity. Space Science Reviews, 121(1–4), 237–252. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-006-6542-6
- Silin, I., & Büchner, J. (2005). Small-scale reconnection due to lower-hybrid drift instability in current sheets with sheared fields. Physics of Plasmas, 12(1), 12320. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1830015
- Silin, I., Büchner, J., & Vaivads, A. (2005). Anomalous resistivity due to nonlinear lower-hybrid drift waves. Physics of Plasmas, 12(6), 62902. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1927096
- Silin, I., & Büchner, J. (2003). Nonlinear instability of thin current sheets in antiparallel and guided magnetic fields. Physics of Plasmas, 10(9), 3561. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1599357
- Silin, I., & Büchner, J. (2003). Kinetic instabilities of thin current sheets: Results of two-and-one-half-dimensional Vlasov code simulations. Physics of Plasmas, 10(5 I), 1299–1307. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1561275
- Silin, I., Büchner, J., & Zelenyi, L. M. (2002). Instabilities of collisionless current sheets: Theory and simulations. Physics of Plasmas, 9(4), 1104. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1459056
- Silin, I., Büchner, J., & Zelenyi, L. M. (2001). Linear theory and simulations of current sheet instabilities. In ISSS-6 (Vol. 6, p. 352). http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001sps..proc..352S