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We study magnetic reconnection events in a turbulent plasma within the two-fluid theory. By identifying the diffusive regions, we measure the reconnection rates as function of the conductivity and current sheet thickness. We have found that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-03-06 Nicola Offeddu , Miller Mendoza

The reconnection rate is obtained for the simplest case of 2D symmetric reconnection in an incompressible plasma. In the short note (Erkaev et al., Phys. Rev. Lett.,84, 1455 (2000)), the reconnection rate is found by matching the outer…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Nikolai V. Erkaev , Vladimir S. Semenov , Ilya V. Alexeev , Helfried K. Biernat

The equations of 2D incompressible dissipationless extended magnetohydrodynamics (XMHD) extend the equations of incompressible Hall MHD (HMHD) by retaining finite-electron inertia. These XMHD equations couple the fluid velocity ${\bf V} =…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Alain J. Brizard

High-energy astrophysical systems and compact objects are frequently modeled using ideal relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) or force-free electrodynamic (FFE) simulations, with the underlying assumption that the discretisation from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-25 Michael P. Grehan , Tanisha Ghosal , James R. Beattie , Bart Ripperda , Oliver Porth , Fabio Bacchini

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

This paper studies the global well-posedness of the incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) system with a velocity damping term. We establish the global existence and uniqueness of smooth solutions when the initial data is close to an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-26 Jiahong Wu , Yifei Wu , Xiaojing Xu

A main result of this paper establishes the global stability of the three-dimensional MHD equations near a background magnetic field with mixed fractional partial dissipation with $\alpha, \beta\in(\frac{1}{2}, 1]$. Namely, the velocity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Xuemin Deng , Yuelong Xiao , Aibin Zang

The importance of magnetic reconnection as an energy release mechanism in many solar, stellar, magnetospheric and astrophysical phenomena has long been recognised. Reconnection is the only mechanism by which magnetic fields can globally…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Clare E. Parnell , Andrew L. Haynes

This paper concerns the Cauchy problem of the two-dimensional (2D) nonhomogeneous incompressible Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations with vacuum as far field density. We establish the global existence and uniqueness of strong solutions to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-08 Boqiang Lv , Zhonghai Xu , Xin Zhong

A variety of high-energy astrophysical phenomena are powered by the release -- via magnetic reconnection -- of the energy stored in oppositely directed fields. Single-fluid resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations with uniform…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-10 Abigail Moran , Lorenzo Sironi , Aviad Levis , Bart Ripperda , Elias R. Most , Sebastiaan Selvi

We examine the dynamics of turbulent reconnection in 2D and 3D reduced MHD by calculating the effective dissipation due to coupling between small-scale fluctuations and large-scale magnetic fields. Sweet-Parker type balance relations are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Eun-Jin Kim , P. H. Diamond

We consider the three-dimensional incompressible MHD system. Any weak solution satisfying a strong energy inequality is $L^2$-asymptotically stable around a Landau solution. Under an additional integrability assumption on the initial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Nicola De Nitti , Yun Wang , Shaoheng Zhang

A main result of this paper establishes the global stability of the 3D MHD equations with mixed partial dissipation near a background magnetic field in the domain $\Omega=\mathbb{T}^2\times\mathbb{R}$ with $\mathbb{T}^2=[0, 1]^2$. More…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-05 Xuemin Deng , Yuelong Xiao , Aibin Zang

This paper establishes a regularity theory for the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations with external forces through scaling analysis. Inspired by the existing methodology, we utilize linearized approximations and the monotonicity property…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Mengyao Ding , Wenwen Huo , Chao Zhang

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) describes the interaction between electrically conducting fluids and electromagnetic fields. We propose and analyze a symplectic, second-order algorithm for the evolutionary MHD system in Els\"asser variables. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Zhen Yao , Catalin Trenchea , Wenlong Pei

The oscillatory reconnection mechanism is investigated for a parameter study of eight orders of magnitude of resistivity, with a particular interest in the evolution of the oscillating current density at the null point and its associated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-26 Jordan Talbot , James A. McLaughlin , Gert J. J. Botha , Mark Hancock

Hall magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) properties near a two-dimensional (2D) X-type magnetic neutral line in the steady state are considered via heuristic and rigorous developments. Upon considering the steady-state as the asymptotic limit of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bhimsen K. Shivamoggi

Resistive relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (RRMHD) simulations are applied to investigate the system evolution of relativistic magnetic reconnection. A time-split Harten--Lan--van Leer method is employed. Under a localized resistivity, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-06-07 Seiji Zenitani , Michael Hesse , Alex Klimas

A model of global magnetic reconnection rate in relativistic collisionless plasmas is developed and validated by the fully kinetic simulation. Through considering the force balance at the upstream and downstream of the diffusion region, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-19 Yi-Hsin Liu , Michael Hesse , Fan Guo , William Daughton , Hui Li

This paper is concerned with the asymptotic behaviors of global strong solutions to the incompressible non-resistive viscous magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations with large initial perturbations in two-dimensional periodic domains in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Fei Jiang , Song Jiang