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A recently published, new analysis of current sheets updated the classic Harris 1D static solution by considering multiple classes of charged particle trajectories in a generalized dynamic current sheet. It used a 1D PIC simulation to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-22 Thomas E. Moore , James L. Burch , Deirdre E. Wendel

In this paper we develop a 3D Lattice-Boltzmann model that recovers in the continuous limit the two-fluids theory for plasmas, and consecuently includes the generalizated Ohm's law. The model reproduces the magnetic reconnection process…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-07-26 M. Mendoza , J. D. Munoz

The space mission STEREO will provide images from two viewpoints. An important aim of the STEREO mission is to get a 3D view of the solar corona. We develop a program for the stereoscopic reconstruction of 3D coronal loops from images taken…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Thomas Wiegelmann , Bernd Inhester

The multi-scale expansions and contractions of the Earth's magnetosphere explain fundamental issues of magnetic storm-substorm relationship. This magnetospheric behavior is in agreement with a model of 3D-spirally-faster-inward-oscillating…

Space Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eugene Savov

The discovery of rapid synchrotron gamma-ray flares above 100 MeV from the Crab Nebula has attracted new interest in alternative particle acceleration mechanisms in pulsar wind nebulae. Diffuse shock-acceleration fails to explain the flares…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Benoit Cerutti , Gregory R. Werner , Dmitri A. Uzdensky , Mitchell C. Begelman

Magnetic reconnection and plasma turbulence are ubiquitous processes important for laboratory, space and astrophysical plasmas. Reconnection has been suggested to play an important role in the energetics and dynamics of turbulence by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-31 Tak Chu Li , Yi-Hsin Liu , Yi Qi , Muni Zhou

Asymmetric current sheets are likely to be prevalent in both astrophysical and laboratory plasmas with complex three dimensional (3D) magnetic topologies. This work presents kinematic analytical models for spine and fan reconnection at a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-06-28 Peter F Wyper , Rekha Jain

Magnetic reconnection plays an essential role in the generation and evolution of astrophysical magnetic fields. The best tested and most robust reconnection theory is that of Parker and Sweet. According to this theory, the reconnection rate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Fabian Heitsch , Ellen G. Zweibel

Magnetic reconnection in strongly magnetized regions around the temperature minimum region of the low solar atmosphere is studied by employing MHD-based simulations of a partially ionized plasma within a reactive 2.5D multi-fluid model. It…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-15 Lei Ni , Vyacheslav S. Lukin , Nicholas A. Murphy , Jun Lin

We perform a three-dimensional (3D) global simulation of Earth's magnetosphere with kinetic reconnection physics to study the flux transfer events (FTEs) and dayside magnetic reconnection with the recently developed magnetohydrodynamics…

Recent experiments have demonstrated magnetic reconnection between colliding plasma plumes, where the reconnecting magnetic fields were self-generated in the plasma by the Biermann battery effect. Using fully kinetic 3-D simulations, we…

Three-dimensional magnetic topology is crucial to understanding the explosive release of magnetic energy in the corona during solar flares. Much attention has been given to the pre-flare magnetic topology to identify candidate sites of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 Chaowei Jiang , Peng Zou , Xueshang Feng , Qiang Hu , Rui Liu , P. Vemareddy , Aiying Duan , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang , Fengsi Wei

Most of the visible matter in the Universe is ionized, so that cosmic magnetic fields are quite easy to generate and due to the lack of magnetic monopoles hard to destroy. Magnetic fields have been measured in or around practically all…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-06 Rainer Beck , Richard Wielebinski

We reconstruct the 3D structure of magnetic fields, which were seeded by density perturbations during the radiation dominated epoch of the Universe and later on were evolved by structure formation. To achieve this goal, we rely on three…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-21 Sebastian Hutschenreuter , Sebastian Dorn , Jens Jasche , Franco Vazza , Daniela Paoletti , Guilhem Lavaux , Torsten A. Enßlin

The ideal MHD theorem on the conservation of the magnetic connections between plasma elements is generalized to relativistic plasmas in curved spacetime. The connections between plasma elements, which are established by a covariant…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-12-13 Felipe A. Asenjo , Luca Comisso

In this work, we introduce a novel generative denoising diffusion model for synthesizing the Sun's three-dimensional coronal magnetic field, a complex and dynamic region characterized by evolving magnetic structures. Despite daily…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-03 Daniel E. da Silva , Michael Kirk , Nat Mathews , Andrés Muñoz-Jaramillo

We propose a short overview of a few selected issues of magnetism in reduced dimensions, which are the most relevant to set the background for more specialized contributions to the present Special Issue. Magnetic anisotropy in reduced…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-16 Olivier Fruchart , André Thiaville

Simulations of relativistic plasmas traditionally focus on the dynamics of two-species mixtures of charged particles under the influence of external magnetic fields and those generated by particle currents. However, the extreme conditions…

Mean-field dynamo theory, describing the evolution of large-scale magnetic fields, has been the mainstay of theoretical interpretation of magnetism in astrophysical objects such as the Sun for several decades. More recently,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-02 Petri J. Käpylä

The thesis discusses micromagnetic simulation studies on high-frequency magnetic dynamics in three-dimensional ferromagnetic nanoarchitectures made of interconnected magnetic nanowire networks. Such artificial magnetic materials with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-20 Rajgowrav Cheenikundil