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Much work on turbulent three-dimensional dynamos has been done using triply periodic domains, in which there are no magnetic helicity fluxes. Here we present simulations where the turbulent intensity is still nearly homogeneous, but now…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 A. Brandenburg

Mathematics demonstrates that an ideally evolving magnetic field has an exponentially increasing sensitivity to non-ideal effects for all but truly exceptional evolutions. On a time scale that depends only logarithmically on the magnitude…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Allen H. Boozer

We performed three-dimensional Particle-in-Cell simulations of magnetic reconnection with multiple magnetic null points. Magnetic field energy conversion into kinetic energy was about five times higher than in traditional Harris sheet…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-09-29 Vyacheslav Olshevsky , Giovanni Lapenta , Stefano Markidis

In magnetized astrophysical outflows, the dissipation of field energy into particle energy via magnetic reconnection is often invoked to explain the observed non-thermal signatures. By means of two- and three-dimensional particle-in-cell…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Lorenzo Sironi , Anatoly Spitkovsky

Axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) can be invoked for describing astrophysical magnetized flows and formulated to model stellar magnetospheres including main sequence stars (e.g. the Sun), compact stellar objects [e.g. magnetic white…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Lile Wang , Yu-Qing Lou

Main objective of this paper is to describe the dynamic transition of the incompressible MHD equations in a rectangular domain in $\mathbb{R}^{3}$. Our analysis shows that the system undergoes a first dynamic transition either to multiple…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-05-17 Taylan Şengül

Magnetic reconnection is a plasma phenomenon where a topological rearrangement of magnetic field lines with opposite polarity results in dissipation of magnetic energy into heat, kinetic energy and particle acceleration. Such a phenomenon…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-31 Edoardo Striani , Andrea Mignone , Bhargav Vaidya , Gianluigi Bodo , Attilio Ferrari

Magnetic reconnection and non-thermal particle distributions associated with current-driven instabilities are investigated by means of resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations combined with relativistic test particle methods. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-19 Bart Ripperda , Oliver Porth , Chun Xia , Rony Keppens

The global existence of classical solutions to the 3D compressible magneto-micropolar fluid system without resistivity and spin viscosity in a strip domain was recently established by Feng, Hong, and Zhu [Sci. China Math., 2024]. While Lin…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Youyi Zhao

This paper resolves the global regularity problem for the three-dimensional incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations in the upper half-space with slip boundary conditions, in the presence of a background magnetic field. Motivated…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Jincheng Gao , Lianyun Peng , Jiahong Wu , Zheng-an Yao

This paper studies the nonlinear evolution of magnetic field turbulence in proximity of steady ideal MHD configurations characterized by a small electric current, a small plasma flow, and approximate flux surfaces, a physical setting that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Naoki Sato , Michio Yamada

We consider inertial magneto-hydrodynamic systems in 2D. We show global existence and uniqueness of smooth solutions and global existence and uniqueness of weak solutions in Yudovich class. We prove magnetic reconnection without magnetic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Peter Constantin , Zhongtian Hu

Oscillatory reconnection is a dynamic, magnetic relaxation mechanism in which a perturbed null point reverts back to equilibrium via time-dependent reconnection. In this paper, we investigate the long-term periodic signal generated by a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-25 Luiz A. C. A. Schiavo , Gert J. J. Botha , James A. McLaughlin

Recent advances in theory and computational experiments have shown the need to refine the previous categorisation of magnetic reconnection at three-dimensional null points -- points at which the magnetic field vanishes. We propose here a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-08 E. R. Priest , D. I. Pontin

We present a solvable scenario for 3D reconnection in a sheared magnetic field. We consider a localized external force that is applied slowly to a flux tube and then maintained, generating an Alfv\'{e}nic perturbation that spreads along the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-30 David N. Hosking , Ian G. Abel , Steven C. Cowley

Inspired by large applications of topological defects in describing different phenomena in physics, and considering the importance of three dimensional solutions in AdS/CFT correspondence, in this paper we obtain magnetic anti-de Sitter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-29 S. H. Hendi , B. Eslam Panah , M. Momennia , S. Panahiyan

Fast magnetic reconnection is defined by the topology of the magnetic field lines changing on a timescale that is approximately an order of magnitude longer than the topology-conserving ideal-evolution timescale. Fast reconnection is an…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Allen H Boozer

This paper is concerned with the asymptotic behaviors of global strong solutions to the incompressible non-resistive viscous magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations with large initial perturbations in two-dimensional periodic domains in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Fei Jiang , Song Jiang

We consider the ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) subjected to a strong magnetic field along $x_1$ direction in three-dimensional thin domains $\Omega_\delta=\mathbb{R}^2\times(-\delta,\delta)$ with slip boundary conditions. It is well-known…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-02 Li Xu

Null and X-points are not themselves directly important to magnetic reconnection because distinguishable field lines do not approach them closely. Even in a collision-free plasma, magnetic field lines that approach each other on a scale…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Allen H. Boozer