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Exact solutions of the steady resistive three dimensional (3D) magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations in cylindrical coordinates for an incompressible plasma are presented. The solutions are translationally invariant along one direction and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Tassi , V. S. Titov , G. Hornig

Relativistic heavy-ion collisions generate ultra-strong magnetic fields that interact with the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a key focus of high-energy physics research.This study investigates QGP energy density evolution under time-dependent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-31 Huang-Jing Zheng , Sheng-Qin Feng

Recent analytical works on strong magnetized plasma turbulence have hypothesized the existence of a range of scales where the tearing instability may govern the energy cascade. In this paper, we estimate the conditions under which such…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Nuno F. Loureiro , Stanislav Boldyrev

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…

Many theoretical models were come up with to figure out the properties of magnetic reconnection process, among which the Sweet-Parker model is the most famous since it describes the magnetic reconnection in a concise way. However, the low…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-01-09 Ye Shen

Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence and magnetic reconnection are ubiquitous in astrophysical environments. In most situations, these processes do not occur in isolation, but interact with each other. This renders a comprehensive theory of these…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-03-29 L. Comisso , Y. -M. Huang , M. Lingam , E. Hirvijoki , A. Bhattacharjee

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

Recent fully nonlinear, kinetic three-dimensional simulations of magnetic reconnection [Daughton et al. 2011] evolve structures and exhibit dynamics on multiple scales, in a manner reminiscent of turbulence. These simulations of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 E. Leonardis , S. C. Chapman , W. Daughton , V. Roytershteyn , H. Karimabadi

Electron and proton acceleration in three-dimensional electric and magnetic fields is studied through test particle simulations. The fields are obtained by a three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulation of magnetic reconnection in slab…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Marco Onofri , Heinz Isliker , Loukas Vlahos

Following the previous work of Ferretti and Yang on the role of magnetic fields in the theory of conformal turbulence, we show that non-unitary minimal model solutions to 2-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) obtained by dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Omduth Coceal , Steven Thomas

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

The fully three dimensional governing equations in the electron magnetohydrodynamic (EMHD) regime for a plasma with inhomogeneous density is obtained. These equations in the two dimensional (2-D) limit can be cast in terms of the evolution…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sharad Kumar Yadav , Amita Das , Predhiman Kaw

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

Magnetic reconnection has been suggested to play an important role in the dynamics and energetics of plasma turbulence by spacecraft observations, simulations and theory over the past two decades, and recently, by magnetosheath observations…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-01-03 Tak Chu Li , Yi-Hsin Liu , Yi Qi

We employ well-known concepts from statistical physics, quantum field theories and general topology to study magnetic reconnection, topology-change and their connection in incompressible flows in the context of an effective field theory…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Amir Jafari

Magnetic reconnection is best known from observations of the Sun where it causes solar flares. Observations estimate the reconnection rate a small, but non-negligible fraction of the Alfv\'en speed, so-called fast reconnection. Until…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Andrey Beresnyak

Magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instability (MRTI) governs material transport and mixing in astrophysical and laboratory plasmas under the influence of gravity and magnetic fields. While magnetic reconnection is known to occur during MRTI…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Manohar Teja Kalluri , Andrew Hillier , Ben Snow

Numerical evidence for a finite-time singularity in ideal 3D magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is presented. The simulations start from two interlocking magnetic flux rings with no initial velocity. The magnetic curvature force causes the flux…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Robert M. Kerr , Axel Brandenburg

The outer solar atmosphere, i.e., the corona and the chromosphere, is replete with small energy-release events, which are accompanied by transient brightening and jet-like ejections. These events are considered to be magnetic reconnection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 T. Shimizu

We investigate hydromagnetic turbulence of primordial magnetic fields using magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in an expanding universe. We present the basic, covariant MHD equations, find solutions for MHD waves in the early universe, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Axel Brandenburg , Kari Enqvist , Poul Olesen