Plasma and Fusion Research
Volume 7, 1401001 (2012)
Regular Articles
- University of Hyogo, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0047, Japan
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- National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki, Gifu 509-5292, Japan
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- The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Toki, Gifu 509-5292, Japan
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- Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Kanagawa 236-0001, Japan
Abstract
The particle kinetic effects play an important role in breaking the frozen-in condition and exciting collisionless magnetic reconnection in high temperature plasmas. Because this effect is originating from a complex thermal motion near reconnection point, it is very important to examine particle trajectories using scientific visualization technique, especially in the presence of plasma instability. We developed interactive visualization environment for the particle trajectories in time-varying electromagnetic fields in the CAVE-type virtual reality system based on VFIVE, which is interactive visualization software for the CAVE system. From the analysis of ion trajectories using the particle simulation data, it was found that time-varying electromagnetic fields around the reconnection region accelerate ions toward the downstream region.
Keywords
scientific visualization, virtual reality, CAVE, particle trajectory, time-varying field
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This paper may be cited as follows:
Nobuaki OHNO, Hiroaki OHTANI, Daisuke MATSUOKA and Ritoku HORIUCHI, Plasma Fusion Res. 7, 1401001 (2012).