First-authored, refereed papers of Giovanni Lapenta

A list of first-authored, refereed publications of Giovanni Lapenta, derived from the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS). The number in brackets after each title indicates the number of citations that the paper has received.

Orcid ID: 0000-0002-3123-4024

List of publications ordered by citations
Number of papers: 57
No. of citations: 1955

2023

1. Advances in the Implementation of the Exactly Energy Conserving Semi-Implicit (ECsim) Particle-in-Cell Method [16]
   Lapenta, Giovanni, Physics, 5, 72
2. Power to the particles [0]
   Lapenta, Giovanni, Nature Physics, 19, 159

2022

1. Do We Need to Consider Electrons' Kinetic Effects to Properly Model a Planetary Magnetosphere: The Case of Mercury [21]
   Lapenta, Giovanni, Schriver, David, Walker, Raymond J., Berchem, Jean, Echterling, Nicole F., El Alaoui, Mostafa & Travnicek, Pavel, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 127, e30241
2. Formation and Reconnection of Electron Scale Current Layers in the Turbulent Outflows of a Primary Reconnection Site [10]
   Lapenta, Giovanni, Goldman, Martin, Newman, David L. & Eriksson, Stefan, ApJ, 940, 187

2021

1. Detecting Reconnection Sites Using the Lorentz Transformations for Electromagnetic Fields [13]
   Lapenta, Giovanni, ApJ, 911, 147

2020

1. Local Regimes of Turbulence in 3D Magnetic Reconnection [20]
   Lapenta, G., Pucci, F., Goldman, M. V. & Newman, D. L., ApJ, 888, 104
2. Turbulent Energization of Electron Power Law Tails during Magnetic Reconnection [18]
   Lapenta, Giovanni, Berchem, Jean, Alaoui, Mostafa El & Walker, Raymond, Physical Review Letters, 125, 225101
3. Multiscale MHD-Kinetic PIC Study of Energy Fluxes Caused by Reconnection [16]
   Lapenta, Giovanni, El Alaoui, Mostafa, Berchem, Jean & Walker, Raymond, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 125, e27276

2017

1. On the origin of the crescent-shaped distributions observed by MMS at the magnetopause [49]
   Lapenta, G., Berchem, J., Zhou, M., Walker, R. J., El-Alaoui, M., Goldstein, M. L., Paterson, W. R., Giles, B. L., Pollock, C. J., Russell, C. T., Strangeway, R. J., Ergun, R. E., Khotyaintsev, Y. V., Torbert, R. B. & Burch, J. L., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 122, 2024
2. Energy exchanges in reconnection outflows [16]
   Lapenta, Giovanni, Goldman, Martin V., Newman, David L. & Markidis, Stefano, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 59, 014019
3. Exactly energy conserving semi-implicit particle in cell formulation [104]
   Lapenta, Giovanni, Journal of Computational Physics, 334, 349

2016

1. A multiscale study of ion heating in Earth's magnetotail [17]
   Lapenta, Giovanni, Ashour-Abdalla, Maha, Walker, Raymond J. & El Alaoui, Mostafa, Geophysical Research Letters, 43, 515

2015

1. Secondary reconnection sites in reconnection-generated flux ropes and reconnection fronts [85]
   Lapenta, Giovanni, Markidis, Stefano, Goldman, Martin V. & Newman, David L., Nature Physics, 11, 690
2. Separatrices: The crux of reconnection [26]
   Lapenta, Giovanni, Markidis, Stefano, Divin, Andrey, Newman, David & Goldman, Martin, Journal of Plasma Physics, 81, 325810109

2014

1. Electromagnetic energy conversion in downstream fronts from three dimensional kinetic reconnectiona) [56]
   Lapenta, Giovanni, Goldman, Martin, Newman, David, Markidis, Stefano & Divin, Andrey, Physics of Plasmas, 21, 055702

2013

1. Propagation speed of rotation signals for field lines undergoing magnetic reconnection [12]
   Lapenta, Giovanni, Goldman, Martin, Newman, David & Markidis, Stefano, Physics of Plasmas, 20, 102113
2. SWIFF: Space weather integrated forecasting framework [21]
   Lapenta, Giovanni, Pierrard, Viviane, Keppens, Rony, Markidis, Stefano, Poedts, Stefaan, Šebek, Ondřej, Trávníček, Pavel M., Henri, Pierre, Califano, Francesco, Pegoraro, Francesco, Faganello, Matteo, Olshevsky, Vyacheslav, Restante, Anna Lisa, Nordlund, Åke, Trier Frederiksen, Jacob, Mackay, Duncan H., Parnell, Clare E., Bemporad, Alessandro, Susino, Roberto & Borremans, Kris, Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate, 3, A05
3. Space Weather Prediction and Exascale Computing [5]
   Lapenta, Giovanni, Markidis, Stefano, Poedts, Stefaan & Vucinic, Dean, Computing in Science and Engineering, 15, 68

2012

1. Achieving fast reconnection in resistive MHD models via turbulent means [24]
   Lapenta, G. & Lazarian, A., Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 19, 251
2. Particle simulations of space weather [99]
   Lapenta, Giovanni, Journal of Computational Physics, 231, 795

2011

1. Bipolar electric field signatures of reconnection separatrices for a hydrogen plasma at realistic guide fields [51]
   Lapenta, G., Markidis, S., Divin, A., Goldman, M. V. & Newman, D. L., Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L17104
2. Spontaneous transition to a fast 3D turbulent reconnection regime [24]
   Lapenta, G. & Bettarini, L., EPL (Europhysics Letters), 93, 65001
3. Particle acceleration and energy conservation in particle in cell simulations [41]
   Lapenta, Giovanni & Markidis, Stefano, Physics of Plasmas, 18, 072101
4. DEMOCRITUS: An adaptive particle in cell (PIC) code for object-plasma interactions [19]
   Lapenta, Giovanni, Journal of Computational Physics, 230, 4679
5. Self-consistent seeding of the interchange instability in dipolarization fronts [43]
   Lapenta, Giovanni & Bettarini, Lapo, Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L11102

2010

1. Scales of guide field reconnection at the hydrogen mass ratio [75]
   Lapenta, G., Markidis, S., Divin, A., Goldman, M. & Newman, D., Physics of Plasmas, 17, 082106

2009

1. Large-scale momentum exchange by microinstabilities: a process happening in laboratory and space plasmas [1]
   Lapenta, Giovanni, Physica Scripta, 80, 035507
2. Computer experiments on the relaxation of collisionless plasmas [12]
   Lapenta, Giovanni, Markidis, Stefano & Kaniadakis, Giorgio, Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 2009, 02024

2008

1. Self-Feeding Turbulent Magnetic Reconnection on Macroscopic Scales [171]
   Lapenta, Giovanni, Physical Review Letters, 100, 235001

2007

1. Study of current intensification by compression in the Earth magnetotail [6]
   Lapenta, Giovanni & King, Joshua, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 112, A12204
2. Relaxation of Relativistic Plasmas Under the Effect of Wave-Particle Interactions [63]
   Lapenta, Giovanni, Markidis, Stefano, Marocchino, Alberto & Kaniadakis, Giorgio, ApJ, 666, 949

2006

1. Kinetic approach to microscopic-macroscopic coupling in space and laboratory plasmasa) [104]
   Lapenta, Giovanni, Brackbill, J. U. & Ricci, Paolo, Physics of Plasmas, 13, 055904
2. Kink instability of flux ropes anchored at one end and free at the other [24]
   Lapenta, Giovanni, Furno, Ivo, Intrator, Thomas & Delzanno, Gian Luca, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 111, A12S06
3. Cost-effectiveness of fully implicit moving mesh adaptation: A practical investigation in 1D [8]
   Lapenta, Giovanni & Chacón, Luis, Journal of Computational Physics, 219, 86
4. Kinetic simulations of x-line expansion in 3D reconnection [46]
   Lapenta, Giovanni, Krauss-Varban, D., Karimabadi, H., Huba, J. D., Rudakov, L. I. & Ricci, Paolo, Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L10102

2005

1. Simulation of Astrophysical Jets: Collimation and Expansion into Radio Lobes [13]
   Lapenta, G. & Kronberg, P. P., ApJ, 625, 37
2. Effect of a Converging Flow at the Streamer Cusp on the Genesis of the Slow Solar Wind [26]
   Lapenta, Giovanni & Knoll, D. A., ApJ, 624, 1049

2004

1. Variational grid adaptation based on the minimization of local truncation error: time-independent problems [14]
   Lapenta, Giovanni, Journal of Computational Physics, 193, 159
2. A recipe to detect the error in discretization schemes [1]
   Lapenta, Giovanni, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 59, 2065

2003

1. Reconnection in the Solar Corona: Role of the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability [25]
   Lapenta, Giovanni & Knoll, D. A., Solar Physics, 214, 107
2. A new paradigm for 3D Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection [7]
   Lapenta, Giovanni, Space Science Reviews, 107, 167
3. The unexpected role of the lower hybrid drift instability in magnetic reconnection in three dimensions [58]
   Lapenta, Giovanni, Brackbill, J. U. & Daughton, W. S., Physics of Plasmas, 10, 1577

2002

1. Nature of the force field in plasma wakes [39]
   Lapenta, Giovanni, Physical Review E, 66, 026409
2. Nonlinear evolution of the lower hybrid drift instability: Current sheet thinning and kinking [83]
   Lapenta, Giovanni & Brackbill, J. U., Physics of Plasmas, 9, 1544
3. Particle Rezoning for Multidimensional Kinetic Particle-In-Cell Simulations [79]
   Lapenta, Giovanni, Journal of Computational Physics, 181, 317

2001

1. Point kinetic model for fluid fuel systems [13]
   Lapenta, G., Mattioda, F. & Ravetto, P., Annals of Nuclear Energy, 28, 1759
2. Neutron transport problems in anisotropic media [0]
   Lapenta, G., Ravetto, P., Rostagno, M. M., Jacqmin, R., Malvagi, F. & Rimpault, G., Annals of Nuclear Energy, 28, 1271
3. Ion Flow Induced Attractive Force in Complex Plasma Crystals [13]
   Lapenta, Giovanni & Lapenta, Giovanni, Physica Scripta, 64, 599

2000

1. Linear theory of plasma wakes [48]
   Lapenta, Giovanni, Physical Review E, 62, 1175

1997

1. Simulation of dust particle dynamics for electrode design in plasma discharges [22]
   Lapenta, G. & Brackbill, J. U., Plasma Sources Science Technology, 6, 61

1996

1. Immersed boundary method for plasma simulation in complex geometries [9]
   Lapenta, G. & Brackbill, J. U., IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 24, 105

1995

1. Particle-in-cell simulation of glow discharges in complex geometries [34]
   Lapenta, G., Iinoya, F. & Brackbill, J. U., IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 23, 769
2. Dipole moments on dust particles immersed in anisotropic plasmas [57]
   Lapenta, Giovanni, Physical Review Letters, 75, 4409
3. Control of the number of particles in fluid and MHD particle in cell methods [25]
   Lapenta, Giovanni & Brackbill, J. U., Computer Physics Communications, 87, 139

1994

1. Dynamic and Selective Control of the Number of Particles in Kinetic Plasma Simulations [65]
   Lapenta, Giovanni & Brackbill, Jeremiah U., Journal of Computational Physics, 115, 213

1993

1. Analysis of non-Maxwellian fusion reaction rates with electron screening [6]
   Lapenta, Giovanni & Quarati, Piero, Zeitschrift fur Physik A Hadrons and Nuclei, 346, 243

1992

1. Non-Maxwellian nuclear reaction rates with electron screening [2]
   Lapenta, G. & Quarati, P., Nuclear Physics B Proceedings Supplements, 28, 126