Abstract
Microscopic particle effects (kinetic effects) play important roles in high-temperature, low-density, weakly collisional plasmas although macroscopically plasmas are considered as fluids. Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental process of plasmas where kinetic effects are crucial. Kinetic simulations of the magnetic reconnection process by taking particle-particle collisions into account have performed, and influence of the kinetic effects on thermodynamic properties of plasmas is discussed.
