Publications

References

Alho, M, M Battarbee, Y Pfau-Kempf, Yu V Khotyaintsev, R Nakamura, G Cozzani, U Ganse, et al. 2022. “Electron Signatures of Reconnection in a Global eVlasiator Simulation.” Geophysical Research Letters 49 (14): e2022GL098329. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL098329.

Chen, Yuxi, Gábor Tóth, Hongyang Zhou, and Xiantong Wang. 2023. “FLEKS: A Flexible Particle-in-Cell Code for Multi-Scale Plasma Simulations.” Computer Physics Communications 287: 108714. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2023.108714.

Cozzani, Giulia, M Alho, Ivan Zaitsev, Hongyang Zhou, Sanni Hoilijoki, Lucile Turc, Maxime Grandin, et al. 2025. “Interplay of Magnetic Reconnection and Current Sheet Kink Instability in the Earth’s Magnetotail.” Geophysical Research Letters 52 (2): e2024GL111848. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL111848.

Dubart, M, M Battarbee, U Ganse, A Osmane, F Spanier, J Suni, Andreas Johlander, et al. 2022. “Sub-Grid Modeling of Pitch-Angle Diffusion for Ion-Scale Waves in Hybrid-Vlasov Simulations with Cartesian Velocity Space.” Physics of Plasmas 29 (10). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0096361.

Ganse, Urs, Tuomas Koskela, Markus Battarbee, Yann Pfau-Kempf, Konstantinos Papadakis, Markku Alho, Maarja Bussov, et al. 2023. “Enabling Technology for Global 3D+ 3V Hybrid-Vlasov Simulations of Near-Earth Space.” Physics of Plasmas 30 (4). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0134387.

Ganse, Urs, Yann Pfau-Kempf, Hongyang Zhou, Liisa Juusola, Abiyot Workayehu, Fasil Kebede, Konstantinos Papadakis, et al. 2024. “The Vlasiator 5.2 Ionosphere–Coupling a Magnetospheric Hybrid-Vlasov Simulation with a Height-Integrated Ionosphere Model.” Geoscientific Model Development Discussions 2024: 1–28. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2024-101.

George, H, A Osmane, EKJ Kilpua, S Lejosne, L Turc, M Grandin, MMH Kalliokoski, et al. 2022. “Estimating Inner Magnetospheric Radial Diffusion Using a Hybrid-Vlasov Simulation.” Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences 9: 866455. https://doi.org/10.3389/fspas.2022.866455.

Grandin, Maxime, Thijs Luttikhuis, Markus Battarbee, Giulia Cozzani, Hongyang Zhou, Lucile Turc, Yann Pfau-Kempf, et al. 2023. “First 3D Hybrid-Vlasov Global Simulation of Auroral Proton Precipitation and Comparison with Satellite Observations.” Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate 13: 20. https://doi.org/10.1051/swsc/2023017.

Horaites, Konstantinos, E Rintamäki, I Zaitsev, L Turc, M Grandin, G Cozzani, H Zhou, et al. 2023. “Magnetospheric Response to a Pressure Pulse in a Three-Dimensional Hybrid-Vlasov Simulation.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 128 (8): e2023JA031374. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JA031374.

Johlander, Andreas, Markus Battarbee, Lucile Turc, Urs Ganse, Yann Pfau-Kempf, Maxime Grandin, Jonas Suni, et al. 2022. “Quasi-Parallel Shock Reformation Seen by Magnetospheric Multiscale and Ion-Kinetic Simulations.” Geophysical Research Letters 49 (2): e2021GL096335. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL096335.

Li, Changkun, Xianzhe Jia, Yuxi Chen, Gabor Toth, Hongyang Zhou, James A Slavin, Weijie Sun, and Gangkai Poh. 2023. “Global Hall MHD Simulations of Mercury’s Magnetopause Dynamics and FTEs Under Different Solar Wind and IMF Conditions.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 128 (5): e2022JA031206. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JA031206.

———. 2024. “Kinetic Signatures, Dawn-Dusk Asymmetries, and Flux Transfer Events Associated with Mercury’s Dayside Magnetopause Reconnection from 3D MHD-AEPIC Simulations.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 129 (6): e2024JA032669. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JA032669.

Palmroth, Minna, Tuija I Pulkkinen, Urs Ganse, Yann Pfau-Kempf, Tuomas Koskela, Ivan Zaitsev, Markku Alho, et al. 2023. “Magnetotail Plasma Eruptions Driven by Magnetic Reconnection and Kinetic Instabilities.” Nature Geoscience 16 (7): 570–76. https://doi.org/s41561-023-01206-2.

Papadakis, Konstantinos, Yann Pfau-Kempf, Urs Ganse, Markus Battarbee, Markku Alho, Maxime Grandin, Maxime Dubart, et al. 2022. “Spatial Filtering in a 6D Hybrid-Vlasov Scheme for Alleviating AMR Artifacts: A Case Study with Vlasiator, Versions 5.0, 5.1, 5.2. 1.” EGUsphere 2022: 1–18. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2022-420.

Suni, Jonas, Minna Palmroth, Lucile Turc, Markus Battarbee, Andreas Johlander, Vertti Tarvus, Markku Alho, et al. 2021. “Connection Between Foreshock Structures and the Generation of Magnetosheath Jets: Vlasiator Results.” Geophysical Research Letters 48 (20): e2021GL095655. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL095655.

Tarvus, Vertti, Lucile Turc, Hongyang Zhou, Takuma Nakamura, Adriana Settino, Kevin Blasl, Giulia Cozzani, et al. 2024. “Hybrid-Vlasov Modelling of Ion Velocity Distribution Functions Associated with the Kelvin–Helmholtz Instability with a Density and Temperature Asymmetry.” The Astrophysical Journal 974 (1): 62. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad697a.

Tesema, Facil, Minna Palmroth, Lucile Turc, Hongyang Zhou, Giulia Cozzani, Markku Alho, Yann Pfau-Kempf, et al. 2024. “Dayside Pc2 Waves Associated with Flux Transfer Events in a 3D Hybrid-Vlasov Simulation.” Geophysical Research Letters 51 (3): e2023GL106756. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL106756.

Turc, Lucile, Hongyang Zhou, Vertti Tarvus, Matti Ala-Lahti, Markus Battarbee, Yann Pfau-Kempf, Andreas Johlander, et al. 2022. “A Global View of Pc3 Wave Activity in Near-Earth Space: Results from Hybrid-Vlasov Simulations.” Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences 9: 989369. https://doi.org/10.3389/fspas.2022.989369.

Zhang, Chi, Chuanfei Dong, Hongyang Zhou, Jan Deca, Shaosui Xu, Yuki Harada, Shannon M Curry, et al. 2025. “Observational Characteristics of Electron Distributions in the Martian Induced Magnetotail.” Geophysical Research Letters 52 (7): e2024GL113030. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL113030.

Zhang, Chi, Chuanfei Dong, Hongyang Zhou, Jasper Halekas, Masatoshi Yamauchi, Hans Nilsson, Terry Liu, et al. 2025. “Anomalous Transient Enhancement of Planetary Ion Escape at Mars.” Nature Communications 16: 3159. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58351-y.

Zhang, Chi, Hongyang Zhou, Chuanfei Dong, Yuki Harada, Masatoshi Yamauchi, Shaosui Xu, Hans Nilsson, et al. 2024. “Source of Drift-Dispersed Electrons in Martian Crustal Magnetic Fields.” The Astrophysical Journal 972 (2): 153. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad64d5.

Zhou, Hongyang. 2023. “Vlasiator. Jl: A Julia Package for Processing Vlasiator Data.” Journal of Open Source Software 8 (84): 4906. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.04906.

Zhou, Hongyang, Gabor Toth, Xianzhe Jia, and Yuxi Chen. 2020. “Reconnection-Driven Dynamics at Ganymede’s Upstream Magnetosphere: 3-d Global Hall MHD and MHD-EPIC Simulations.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 125 (8): e2020JA028162. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028162.

Zhou, Hongyang, and Gábor Tóth. 2020. “Efficient OpenMP Parallelization to a Complex MPI Parallel Magnetohydrodynamics Code.” Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing 139: 65–74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpdc.2020.02.004.

Zhou, Hongyang, Gábor Tóth, Xianzhe Jia, Yuxi Chen, and Stefano Markidis. 2019. “Embedded Kinetic Simulation of Ganymede’s Magnetosphere: Improvements and Inferences.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 124 (7): 5441–60. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA026643.

Zhou, Hongyang, Lucile Turc, Yann Pfau-Kempf, Markus Battarbee, Vertti Tarvus, Maxime Dubart, Harriet George, et al. 2022. “Magnetospheric Responses to Solar Wind Pc5 Density Fluctuations: Results from 2D Hybrid Vlasov Simulation.” Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences 9: 984918. https://doi.org/10.3389/fspas.2022.984918.