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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

Analytical solutions for reconnective annihilation in curvilinear geometry are presented. These solutions are characterized by current density distributions varying both along the radial and azimuthal coordinates. They represent an…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Tassi , V. S. Titov , G. Hornig

In this paper, two classes of exact analytic time-dependent soultion of magnetic annihilation for incompressible magnetic fluid, have been obtained by solving the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations directly. The solutions derived here…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xue-Shang Feng , Yong Liu , Feng-Si Wei , Zhan-Yin Ye

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

The Kelvin--Helmholtz (KH) and tearing instabilities are likely to be important for the process of fast magnetic reconnection that is believed to explain the observed explosive energy release in solar flares. Theoretical studies of the…

Three-dimensional (3D) magnetic nulls are abundant in the solar atmosphere, as been firmly established through contemporary observations. They are established to be important magnetic structures in, for example, jets and circular ribbon…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-11 Yogesh Kumar Maurya , Ramit Bhattacharyya , David I. Pontin , Sanjay Kumar

We present a radiation-magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) simulation of a magnetic cancellation event. The model is calculated with the Bifrost code and spans from the uppermost convection zone to the corona. The cancellation occurs between the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-24 F. Moreno-Insertis , V. H. Hansteen , D. Nóbrega-Siverio

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 process of magnetic field annihilation and reconnection in simulations of magnetised solar photosphere and chromosphere with magnetic fields of opposite polarities and constant numerical resistivity. Exact analytical solutions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 S. Shelyag , Y. E. Litvinenko , V. Fedun , G. Verth , J. J. González-Avilés , F. S. Guzmán

The appearance of eruptive space plasma processes, e.g., in eruptive flares as observed in the solar atmosphere, is usually assumed to be caused by magnetic reconnection. The process of magnetic reconnection is often connected with singular…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-07 Dieter Nickeler , Marian Karlicky , Miroslav Barta

The paper examines the prospects of using laser plasmas for studying novel regimes of the magnetic field line reconnection and charged particle acceleration. Basic features of plasma dynamics in the three-dimensional configurations relevant…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 S. V. Bulanov

In this paper, we investigate the decay properties of axially symmetric solutions to the steady incompressible magnetohydrodynamic equations in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with finite Dirichlet integral. We first derive the decay rates of general…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-23 Shangkun Weng , Yan Zhou

In this paper, we consider the 2D incompressible MHD equations with horizontal dissipation and horizontal magnetic diffusion. We establish local existence and uniqueness of solutions for initial data in $H^s$($s\geq 1$). The proof relays…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Xiaoguang You

We consider inertial magneto-hydrodynamic systems in 2D. We show global existence and uniqueness of smooth solutions and global existence and uniqueness of weak solutions in Yudovich class. We prove magnetic reconnection without magnetic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Peter Constantin , Zhongtian Hu

Coronal heating has been a long-standing conundrum in solar physics. Parker's conjecture that spontaneous current singularities lead to nanoflares that heat the corona has been controversial. In ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), can genuine…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-08-30 Yao Zhou

In this paper, we investigate the similarity solutions for a steady laminar incompressible boundary layer equations governing the Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow near the forward stagnation point of two-dimensional and axisymmetric bodies.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jean-David Hoernel

To systematically stress a rotationally symmetric 3D magnetic null point by advecting the opposite footpoints of the spine axis in opposite directions. This stress eventually concentrates in the vicinity of the null point forming a local…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 K. Galsgaard , D. I. Pontin

Null collapse is an implosive process whereby MHD waves focus their energy in the vicinity of a null point, forming a current sheet and initiating magnetic reconnection. We consider, for the first time, the case of collapsing 3D magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-21 J. O. Thurgood , D. I. Pontin , J. A. McLaughlin

This paper concerns with the explicit blowup phenomenon for 3D incompressible MHD equations in R^3. More precisely, we find two family of explicit blowup solutions for 3D incompressible MHD equations in R^3. One family of solutions admit…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-20 Weiping Yan

We show that toroidal magnetic field annihilation in the equatorial current sheet of the pulsar magnetosphere is related to how fast poloidal magnetic field lines close as we move away from the light cylinder. This determines the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ioannis Contopoulos
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