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Giovanni Lapenta

Researcher at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Publications -  453
Citations -  10378

Giovanni Lapenta is an academic researcher from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. The author has contributed to research in topics: Magnetic reconnection & Magnetic field. The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 428 publications receiving 9098 citations. Previous affiliations of Giovanni Lapenta include Swedish Institute of Space Physics & Royal Observatory of Belgium.

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Multi-scale simulations of plasma with iPIC3D

TL;DR: The implicit Particle-in-Cell method for the computer simulation of plasma, and its implementation in a three-dimensional parallel code, called iPIC3D, enables kinetic plasma simulations at magnetohydrodynamics time scales.
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Understanding space weather to shield society: A global road map for 2015-2025 commissioned by COSPAR and ILWS

TL;DR: There is a growing appreciation that the environmental conditions that we call space weather impact the technological infrastructure that powers the coupled economies around the world as discussed by the authors, and there is also a growing awareness that space weather impacts the technologies that are used in the world.
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Self-Feeding Turbulent Magnetic Reconnection on Macroscopic Scales

TL;DR: Within a MHD approach, a second, completely different and chaotic reconnection process is possible, which is much faster, developing on scales of the order of the Alfvén time, and the areas of reconnection become distributed chaotically over a macroscopic region.
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Collisionless magnetic reconnection in the presence of a guide field

TL;DR: The results of kinetic simulations of magnetic reconnection in Harris current sheets are analyzed in this article, showing that the reconnection rate decreases with the guide field and depends weakly on the mass ratio.