Magnetic Reconnection

To minimize the workload imbalance, we set the configuration of the background magnetic field in the y-direction contrary to usual setups.

Configuration Parameters

In addition to common configuration parameters described in README.md in the top directory, following parameters can be specified.

parameter :
- num_process Number of MPI processes. This must be the same as the number specified in execusion with mpiexec or mpirun.
- n_x Number of grid in x direction.
- n_y Number of grid in y direction.
- mass_ratio Ion to electron mass ratio: m_i/m_e.
- alpha Ratio of the electron plasma-to-cyclotron frequency.
- rtemp Ion-to-Electron temperature ratio.
- lcs Current sheet thickness in the unit of the ion inertia length
- nbg Number of particles per cell per species for the background population
- ncs Number of particles per cell per species for the current sheet population

Checking Results

For a quicklook, run the script plot_sample.py as

$ python plot_sample.py