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Models for collisionless magnetic reconnection in near-Earth space are distinctly characterized as 2D or 3D. In 2D kinetic models, the frozen-in law for the electron fluid is usually broken by laminar dynamics involving structures set by…

We study the three-dimensional incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations near Couette flow with a constant magnetic field perpendicular to the shear plane. Couette flow induces mixing and generates magnetic induction, while the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Niklas Knobel

Scale interactions in Hall MHD are studied using both the mean field theory derivation of transport coefficients, and direct numerical simulations in three space dimensions. In the magnetically dominated regime, the eddy resistivity is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. D. Mininni , A. Alexakis , A. Pouquet

Relativistic magnetic reconnection is one of the most fundamental mechanisms considered responsible for the acceleration of relativistic particles in astrophysical jets and magnetospheres of compact objects. Understanding the properties of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-22 M. Bugli , E. F. Lopresti , E. Figueiredo , A. Mignone , B. Cerutti , G. Mattia , L. Del Zanna , G. Bodo , V. Berta

The electron magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) contains a highly nonlinear Hall term with an interesting structure. Exploring the Hall nonlinear structure, we investigate possible phenomena of finite time blow up for the electron MHD with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-20 Mimi Dai

Two-dimensional and three-dimensional kinetic simulation results reveal the importance of the Lower-Hybrid Drift Instability LHDI to the onset of magnetic reconnection. Both explicit and implicit kinetic simulations show that the LHDI heats…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Paolo Ricci , J. U. Brackbill , W. Daughton , Giovanni Lapenta

In this study, the dynamics of a dissipationless incompressible Hall magnetohydrodynamic (HMHD) medium are formulated as geodesics on a direct product of two volume-preserving diffeomorphism groups. Formulations are given for the geodesic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-05-22 Keisuke Araki

Collisionless magnetic reconnection typically requires kinetic treatments that are, in general, computationally expensive compared to fluid-based models. In this study, we use the magnetohydrodynamics with adaptively embedded…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Dion Li , Yuxi Chen , Chuanfei Dong , Liang Wang , Gabor Toth

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 investigate the propagation of high-speed solar wind streams from their origin near the Sun to 1 AU using three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations. By tracking both global stream structure and individual plasma parcels, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-05 Stefan J. Hofmeister

It has recently been established that the evolution of protoplanetary disks is primarily driven by magnetized disk winds, requiring large-scale magnetic flux threading the disks. The size of such disks is expected to shrink in time, as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Haifeng Yang , Xue-Ning Bai

In this article, we consider the 3D-rotating magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) system when the initial velocity and magnetic field both feature some 2D-part (i.-e. depending only on the horizontal space variables). We prove for weak and strong…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Frédéric Charve , Van-Sang Ngo

Anomalous Hall effect (AHE), occurring in materials with broken time-reversal symmetry, epitomizes the intricate interplay between magnetic order and orbital motions of electrons[1-4]. In two dimensional (2D) systems, AHE is always coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 Qingxin Li , Hua Fan , Min Li , Yinghai Xu , Junwei Song , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie , James Hone , Cory Dean , Yue Zhao , Jianpeng Liu , Lei Wang

Magnetic reconnection, a fundamental plasma process, is pivotal in understanding energy conversion and particle acceleration in astrophysical systems. While extensively studied in two-dimensional (2D) configurations, the dynamics of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Vinay Kumar , Pallavi Bhat

Using magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) adaptive mesh refinement simulations, we study the formation and early evolution of disk galaxies with a magnetized interstellar medium. For a $10^{10}$ \msun halo with initial NFW dark matter and gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-17 Peng Wang , Tom Abel

A standard model for eruptive flares aims at describing observational 3D features of the reconnecting coronal magnetic field. Extensions to the 2D model require the physical understanding of 3D reconnection processes at the origin of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Miho Janvier , Guillaume Aulanier , Etienne Pariat , Pascal Demoulin

Fully adaptive computations of the resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations are presented in two and three space dimensions using a finite volume discretization on locally refined dyadic grids. Divergence cleaning is used to control…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Anna Karina Fontes Gomes , Margarete Oliveira Domingues , Odim Mendes , Kai Schneider

Magnetic reconnection is invoked as one of the primary mechanisms to produce energetic particles. We employ large-scale three-dimensional (3D) particle-in-cell simulations of reconnection in magnetically-dominated ($\sigma=10$) pair plasmas…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 Hao Zhang , Lorenzo Sironi , Dimitrios Giannios

Our understanding of processes occurring in the heliosphere historically began with reduced dimensionality - one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) sketches and models, which aimed to illustrate views on large-scale structures in the…

We present 3D simulations of semirelativistic collisionless magnetic reconnection, where upstream ions are subrelativistic while electrons are ultrarelativistic. We employ the realistic proton-to-electron mass ratio and explore a range of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-03 Fabio Bacchini , Gregory R. Werner , Camille Granier , Jesse Vos