Investigation of kinetic processes at the electron scale in global magnetospheric simulations: the cases of Earth and Mercury

Giovanni Lapenta1,2, Hanne Baeke3, David Schriver4, Raymond J Walker5, Jean Berchem4, Nicole Echterling5, Mostafa El-Alaoui6 and Pavel Travnicek7, (1)Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Department of Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium, (2)Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States, (3)KULeuven, Leuven, Belgium, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (6)UCLA, Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (7)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States