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We report simulation results for turbulent magnetic reconnection obtained using a newly developed Reynolds-averaged magnetohydrodynamics model. We find that the initial Harris current sheet develops in three ways, depending on the strength…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Katsuaki Higashimori , Nobumitsu Yokoi , Masahiro Hoshino

The theoretical prediction that magnetic reconnection spontaneously drives turbulence has been supported by magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) and kinetic simulations. While reconnection with externally driven turbulence is accepted as an effective…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Jian-Fu Zhang , Siyao Xu , Alex Lazarian , Grzegorz Kowal

We present the results of a set of three-dimensional numerical simulations of magnetic flux emergence from below the photosphere into the corona that include a uniform and horizontal coronal magnetic field mimicking a pre-existing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Galsgaard , F. Moreno-Insertis , V. Archontis , A. Hood

Magnetic reconnection is a process that changes magnetic field topology in highly conducting fluids. Traditionally, magnetic reconnection was associated mostly with solar flares. In reality, the process must be ubiquitous as astrophysical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 A Lazarian , G. Eyink , E. Vishniac , G. Kowal

Coronal jets are collimated plasma eruptions which are ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere. Believed to be triggered by magnetic reconnection, these jets can contribute to various phenomena, including coronal heating and particle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-03 Yogesh Kumar Maurya , Ramit Bhattacharyya , Peter Wyper

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

We use 3D fully kinetic particle-in-cell simulations to study the occurrence of magnetic reconnection in a simulation of decaying turbulence created by anisotropic counter-propagating low-frequency Alfv\'en waves consistent with…

We present a new MHD wave decomposition method that overcomes the limitations of existing wave identification methods. Our method allows to investigate the energy fluxes in different MHD modes at different locations of the solar atmosphere…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 N. Yadav , Rony Keppens , B. Popescu Braileanu

Within the framework of resistive MHD, implementing the C7 equilibrium atmosphere model and a 3D potential magnetic field realistic configuration, we simulate the formation of a plasm jet with the morphology, upward velocity up to 130 km/s…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-29 J. J. González-Avilés , F. S. Guzmán , V. Fedun , G. Verth , R. Sharma , S. Shelyag , S. Regnier

We present the first results of three-dimensional (3D) numerical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the onset of magnetic reconnection via the tearing instability in dynamically thinning current sheets in the solar corona. In all our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-10 James Leake , Lars Daldorff , James Klimchuk

Magnetic reconnection is one of the most important processes in astrophysical, space and laboratory plasmas. Identifying the structure around the point at which the magnetic field lines break and subsequently reform, known as the magnetic…

Context. Three-dimensional (3D) reconnection is an important mechanism for efficiently releasing energy during astrophysical eruptive events, which is difficult to be quantitatively analyzed especially within turbulent plasmas. Aims. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-28 Yulei Wang , Xin Cheng , Yang Guo , Jinhan Guo , Mingde Ding

In this paper we study current accumulations in 3D "tilted" nulls formed by a folding of the spine and fan. A non-zero component of current parallel to the fan is required such that the null's fan plane and spine are not perpendicular. Our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-13 Jorge Fuentes-Fernandez , Clare E. Parnell

Oscillatory reconnection can manifest through the interaction between the ubiquitous MHD waves and omnipresent null points in the solar atmosphere and is characterized by an inherent periodicity. In the current study, we focus on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Konstantinos Karampelas , James A. McLaughlin , Gert J. J. Botha , Stéphane Régnier

Extreme-ultraviolet and X-ray jets occur frequently in magnetically open coronal holes on the Sun, especially at high solar latitudes. Some of these jets are observed by white-light coronagraphs as they propagate through the outer corona…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 Vadim M. Uritsky , Merrill A. Roberts , C. Richard DeVore , Judith T. Karpen

In this series of papers we examine magnetic reconnection in a domain where the magnetic field does not vanish and the non-ideal region is localised in space. In a previous paper we presented a technique for obtaining analytical solutions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. L. Wilmot-Smith , G. Hornig , E. R. Priest

We study the magnetic reconnection during a flare by investigating flare ribbon dynamics using observations and data-constrained magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulation. In particular, we estimate the reconnection flux and the reconnection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-19 Sushree S Nayak , Qiang Hu , Wen He , Sanjay Kumar , Ramit Bhattacharyya

Recent studies have revealed that solar jets involving minifilament eruptions may be initiated under the well-known magnetic-breakout mechanism. Before or just at the onset of those jets, there should be a current sheet, where breakout…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Junchao Hong , Jiayan Yang , Huadong Chen , Yi Bi , Bo Yang , Hechao Chen

Local magnetic reversals are an inseparable part of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence whose collective outcome on an arbitrary scale in the inertial range may lead to a global stochastic reconnection event with a rate independent of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-20 Amir Jafari , Ethan Vishniac , Siyao Xu

We consider the phenomenon of magnetic reconnection, namely a change in the topology of magnetic lines, for sufficiently regular solutions of the three-dimensional periodic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations. We provide examples where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Gennaro Ciampa , Renato Lucà