SM54A
Integrating Kinetic and Extended MHD Effects in Global Simulations II

Friday, 18 December 2015: 16:00-18:00
2016 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Amitava Bhattacharjee, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
Conveners:  William S Daughton, MS-F699, Plasma Theory and App, Los Alamos, NM, United States and John Dorelli, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Chairs:  Amitava Bhattacharjee, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States and John Dorelli, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Amitava Bhattacharjee, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
16:00
Adding Drift Kinetics to a Global MHD Code (Invited) (61406)
John Lyon, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, Viacheslav G Merkin, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, Binzheng Zhang, Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States and Jeremy Ouellette, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States
16:15
Towards Closures for Multi-Fluid Moment Simulations of Collisionless Plasmas (Invited) (80929)
Ammar Hakim, Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
16:30
Ganymede as a Laboratory for Multiscale Physics (Invited) (71404)
Alex Glocer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
16:45
Multi-Fluid Moment Simulations of Ganymede using the Next-Generation OpenGGCM (79856)
Liang Wang1, Kai Germaschewski1, Ammar Hakim2, Amitava Bhattacharjee3 and Joachim Raeder1, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (2)Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
17:00
Extended MHD approach to dayside reconnection (82110)
Huy-Sinh Trung, Raluca Ilie, Michael Warren Liemohn and Shasha Zou, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
17:15
The importance of kinetic ion physics in the interaction of magnetic islands (76637)
Adam Stanier1, William S Daughton2, Luis Chacon1, Homayoun Karimabadi3, Jonathan Ng4, Amitava Bhattacharjee4, Yi-Min Huang5 and Ammar Hakim5, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Plasma Theory and App, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (4)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (5)Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
17:30
Magnetospheric Simulations With the Three-Dimensional Magnetohydrodynamics With Embedded Particle-in-Cell Model (Invited) (61240)
Gabor Toth1, Xianzhe Jia2, Yuxi Chen2, Stefano Markidis3, Bo Peng3, Lars K. S. Daldorff4, Valeriy Tenishev1, Dmitry Borovikov2, John David Haiducek2, Tamas I Gombosi5, Alex Glocer4, John Dorelli4 and Giovanni Lapenta6, (1)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (6)Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
17:45
3D PIC simulation of the cusp dynamics : The Alfven transition layer (77714)
Dong Sheng Cai, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, Bertrand Lembege, LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France and Ken-Ichi Nishikawa, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States