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We present a reduced magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) mathematical model describing the dynamical behavior of highly conducting plasmas with frozen-in magnetic fields, constrained by the assumption that, there exists a frame of reference, where…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 Igor V Sokolov , Lulu Zhao , Tamas I Gombosi

Filaments/prominences are cold plasma (~ 10000 K) embedded in the solar corona, two orders of magnitude hotter. Filament plasma is structured by the magnetic field in thin elongated threads. Counter-streaming flows have been observed. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-24 Garima Karki , Brigitte Schmieder , Pascal Demoulin , Pooja Devi , Ramesh Chandra , Reetika Joshi

The Martian magnetosheath acts as a conduit for mass and energy transfer between the upstream solar wind and its induced magnetosphere. However, our understanding of its global properties remains limited. Using nine years of data from…

Space Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Abigail Tadlock , Chuanfei Dong , Chi Zhang , Markus Franz , Hongyang Zhou , Jiawei Gao

Alongside magnetic reconnection, turbulence is another fundamental nonlinear plasma phenomenon that plays a key role in energy transport and conversion in space and astrophysical plasmas. From a numerical, theoretical, and observational…

In an inhomogeneous magnetised plasma the transport of energy and particles perpendicular to the magnetic field is in general mainly caused by quasi two-dimensional turbulent fluid mixing. The physics of turbulence and structure formation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-03-05 Alexander Kendl

From the frozen-in field lines concept, a highly conducting fluid can move freely along, but not traverse to, magnetic field lines. We discuss this topic and find that in the study of the frozen-in field lines concept, the effects of…

General Physics · Physics 2015-09-03 Zhu-Xing Liang , Yi Liang

Self-organization properties of sustained magnetized plasma are applied to selected solar data to understand solar magnetic fields. Torsional oscillations are speed-up and slow-down bands of the azimuthal flow that correlate with the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-26 T. R. Jarboe , T. E. Benedett , C. J. Everson , C. J. Hansen , A. C. Hossack , K. D. Morgan , B. A. Nelson , J. M. Penna , D. A. Sutherland

The adiabatic inhomogeneities of the scalar curvature lead to a compressible flow affecting the dynamics of the hydromagnetic nonlinearities. The influence of the plasma on the evolution of a putative magnetic field is explored with the aim…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Massimo Giovannini

Oblique propagation and head-on collisions of solitary structures is studied in a dense magnetized plasma comprised of relativistic ultra-cold electrons and positrons and positive dynamic ions using conventional extended multi-scales…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Akbari-Moghanjoughi

Results from a numerical study of fluctuation dynamo in a collisionless, weakly magnetized plasma are presented. The key difference between this dynamo and its magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) counterpart is the adiabatic production of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-17 Denis A. St-Onge , Matthew W. Kunz

This paper shows that magnetic reconnection could be an important heating process in cosmic gases. In any volume where magnetized plasmas collide, the dissipation of magnetic energy via reconnection seems to be unavoidable. Since most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Zimmer , H. Lesch , G. T. Birk

The diffusion of astrophysical magnetic fields in conducting fluids in the presence of turbulence depends on whether magnetic fields can change their topology via reconnection in highly conducting media. Recent progress in understanding…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-12-17 R. Santos-Lima , A. Lazarian , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , J. Cho

The reversibility of the transfer of energy from the magnetic field to the surrounding plasma during magnetic reconnection is examined. Trajectories of test particles in an analytic model of the fields demonstrate that irreversibility is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 M. Xuan , M. Swisdak , J. F. Drake

The properties of the turbulence which develops in the outflows of magnetic reconnection have been investigated using self-consistent plasma simulations, in three dimensions. As commonly observed in space plasmas, magnetic reconnection is…

Converting magnetization spin to orbital current often relies on strong spin-orbit interaction that may cause additional angular momentum dissipation. We report that coherent magnetization dynamics in magnetic nanostructures can…

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Plasma in the terrestrial magnetosheath is characterised by very weak particle-particle collisions, so kinetic microinstabilities are thought to be responsible for regulating the thermodynamics of the plasma. By exciting electromagnetic…

The origin of the Sun's slow wind and its inherent variability remain unknown, but there is increasing evidence that interactions between closed and open magnetic flux in the corona play a major role. This paper studies the dynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-01 Sahel Dey , David I. Pontin , Spiro K. Antiochos

Dynamic mitigation is presented for filamentation instability and magnetic reconnection in a plasm driven by a wobbling electron sheet current. The wobbling current introduces an oscillating perturbation and smooths the perturbation. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-01-21 Yan-Jun Gu , Shigeo Kawata , Sergei V. Bulanov

The main issue of the pulsar magnetosphere is how the rotation power is converted into both particle beams which causes pulsed emissions, and a highly relativistic wind of electron-positron plasmas which forms surrounding nebulae shining in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Tomohide Wada , Shinpei Shibata

We investigate electromagnetic buoyancy instabilities of the electron-ion plasma with the heat flux based on not the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations, but using the multicomponent plasma approach when the momentum equations are solved…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Anatoly Nekrasov , Mohsen Shadmehri