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We discuss the role of neoclassical resistivity and local magnetic shear in the triggering of the sawtooth in tokamaks. When collisional detrapping of electrons is considered the value of the safety factor on axis, $q(0,t)$, evolves on a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 A. Zocco , J. W. Connor , C. G. Gimblett , R. J. Hastie

In the solar corona, magnetic reconnection usually takes place at the singular configuration of magnetic field, in particular near a magnetic null owing to its high susceptibility to perturbations. In this Letter, we report a rare X-shaped…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 J. Q. Sun , X. Cheng , Y. Guo , M. D. Ding , Y. Li

In this study, the evolution of a highly unstable m = 1 resistive tearing mode, leading to plasmoid formation in a Harris sheet is studied in the framework of full MHD model using the NIMROD simulation. Following the initial nonlinear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 Nisar Ahmad , Ping Zhu , Ahmad Ali , Shiyong Zeng

Recently, magnetic reconnection during collisionless, stressed, X-point collapse was studied using kinetic, 2.5D, fully electromagnetic, relativistic Particle-in-Cell numerical code [D. Tsiklauri and T. Haruki, Phys. Plasmas, 14, 112905…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-23 D. Tsiklauri , T. Haruki

Resonance trapping appears in open many-particle quantum systems at high level density when the coupling to the continuum of decay channels reaches a critical strength. Here a reorganization of the system takes place and a separation of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-03-15 E. Persson , T. Gorin , I. Rotter

This paper is the first attempt to build CGC/saturation model based on the next-to-leading order corrections to linear and non-linear evolution in QCD. We assume that the renormalization scale is the saturation momentum and found that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-28 Carlos Contreras , Eugene Levin , Rodrigo Meneses , Irina Potashnikova

The effects of line-tying on resistive tearing instability in slab geometry is studied within the framework of reduced magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD).\citep{KadomtsevP1974,Strauss1976} It is found that line-tying has a stabilizing effect. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-12-08 Yi-Min Huang , Ellen G. Zweibel

Using a two-dimensional coarse-grained chain model, planar slits in multilayer graphite crystals are simulated. It is shown that when covering a linear cavity on the flat surface of a graphite crystal with a multilayer graphene sheet, an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Alexander V. Savin , Artem P. Klinov

We performed the first numerical simulations of magnetorotational instability from a sub-magnetar-class seed magnetic field in core collapse supernovae. As a result of axisymmetric ideal MHD simulations, we found that the magnetic field is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Hidetomo Sawai , Shoichi Yamada , Hideyuki Suzuki

We have studied non-axisymmetric standing accretion shock instability, or SASI, by 3D hydrodynamical simulations. This is an extention of our previous study on axisymmetric SASI. We have prepared a spherically symmetric and steady accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-30 Wakana Iwakami , Kei Kotake , Naofumi Ohnishi , Shoichi Yamada , Keisuke Sawada

We present a detailed analysis of the properties of magnetic reconnection at large-scale current sheets in a high cadence version of the Lynch & Edmondson (2013) 2.5D MHD simulation of sympathetic magnetic breakout eruptions from a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-19 B. J. Lynch , J. K. Edmondson , M. D. Kazachenko , S. E. Guidoni

We develop a new scaling theory for the resistive tearing mode instability of a current sheet with a strong shear flow across the layer. The growth rate decreases with increasing flow shear and is completely stabilized as the shear flow…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Alfred Mallet , Stefan Eriksson , Marc Swisdak , James Juno

We investigate, using numerical simulations and analytical arguments, a simple one dimensional model for the swelling or the collapse of a closed polymer chain of size N, representing the dynamical evolution of a polymer in a \Theta-solvent…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Pitard , J. -P. Bouchaud

We examine the island size distribution function and spatial correlation function of a model for island growth in the submonolayer regime in both 1 and 2 dimensions. In our model the islands do not grow in shape, and a fixed number of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Ji Li , A. G. Rojo , Leonard M. Sander

The highly dynamical, complex nature of the solar atmosphere naturally implies the presence of waves in a topologically varied magnetic environment. Here, the interaction of waves with topological features such as null points is inevitable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. W. Threlfall , C. E. Parnell , I. De Moortel , K. G. McClements , T. D. Arber

Collisionless tearing instability with a power-law distribution function in a relativistic pair plasma with a guide field is studied. When the current sheet is supported by plasma pressure, the tearing mode is suppressed as the particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-25 Ivan Demidov , Yuri Lyubarsky

This paper deals with the experimental characterization of the collapse of wet granular columns in the pendular state, with the purpose of collecting data on triggering and jamming phenomena in wet granular media. The final deposit shape…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-10 Riccardo Artoni , Andrea C. Santomaso , Fabio Gabrieli , Diego Tono , Simonetta Cola

R-modes of a rotating neutron star are unstable because of the emission of gravitational radiation. We explore the saturation amplitudes of these modes determined by nonlinear mode-mode coupling. Modelling the star as incompressible allows…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Jeandrew Brink , Saul A. Teukolsky , Ira Wasserman

Magnetic reconnection is believed to be the driver of many explosive phenomena in Astrophysics, from solar to gamma-ray flares in magnetars and in the Crab nebula. However, reconnection rates from classic MHD models are far too slow to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Emanuele Papini , Simone Landi , Luca Del Zanna

Surface roughness emerges naturally during mechanical removal of material, fracture, chemical deposition, plastic deformation, indentation, and other processes. Here, we use continuum simulations to show how roughness which is neither…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-01 Lucas Frérot , Lars Pastewka