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等离子体团不稳定区泰勒问题的扩展理论

Extended theory of the Taylor problem in the plasmoid-unstable regime

Luca Comisso, Daniela Grasso, François L. Waelbroeck

摘要:

考虑薄重联电流片的等离子体团不稳定性,解决了强迫磁重联的一个基本问题。在这个问题中,重联是由一个小振幅的边界扰动撕裂稳定的平板等离子体平衡。结果表明,磁重联过程的演化依赖于外源扰动和微观等离子体参数。小的扰动导致缓慢的非线性卢瑟福演化,而较大的扰动可以导致一个稳定的斯威特帕克相或等离子体相。触发等离子体相所需的阈值扰动幅度的表达式推导,以及在等离子体为主的政权的重连率的解析表达式。粘阻磁流体动力学模拟补充分析计算。等离子体团的形成起着至关重要的作用,允许快速重联在磁流体动力学等离子体,和所提出的结果表明,它可能会发生,并具有深远的后果,即使等离子体撕裂稳定。

英文摘要:

A fundamental problem of forced magnetic reconnection has been solved taking into account the plasmoid instability of thin reconnecting current sheets. In this problem, the reconnection is driven by a small amplitude boundary perturbation in a tearing-stable slab plasma equilibrium. It is shown that the evolution of the magnetic reconnection process depends on the external source perturbation and the microscopic plasma parameters. Small perturbations lead to a slow nonlinear Rutherford evolution, whereas larger perturbations can lead to either a stable Sweet-Parker-like phase or a plasmoid phase. An expression for the threshold perturbation amplitude required to trigger the plasmoid phase is derived, as well as an analytical expression for the reconnection rate in the plasmoid-dominated regime. Visco-resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulations complement the analytical calculations. The plasmoid formation plays a crucial role in allowing fast reconnection in a magnetohydrodynamical plasma, and the presented results suggest that it may occur and have profound consequences even if the plasma is tearing-stable.

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