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理想撕裂模的电阻磁流体动力学模拟

Resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the ideal tearing mode

Simone Landi, Luca Del Zanna, Emanuele Papini, Fulvia Pucci, Marco Velli

摘要:

我们研究的线性和非线性演化的撕裂不稳定性薄电流片通过二维数值模拟,在可压缩,电阻磁流体力学的框架内。特别是,我们分析的行为的电流片,其逆纵横比的规模与伦德奎斯特数$S$为$S^{-1/3}$。最近已经认识到,这种缩放产生了分离快速、理想重连的阈值,其演化和增长独立于$S$,只要这足够高,因为理想情况作为$S\to\infty$的极限应该是自然的。我们的模拟证实,撕裂不稳定性增长率可以像$γ\approx 0.6\,{τ_A}^{-1}$一样快,其中$τ_A$是由宏观尺度设定的理想Alfvénic时间,对于我们的最小扩散情况$S=10^7$。预期的不稳定色散关系和本征模也检索在线性区域,这里探讨的值$S$。此外,在非线性阶段的模拟,我们观察到二次事件服从相同的关键缩放与$S$,这里计算的\emph{local},小得多的长度,导致越来越快的重连。这些发现有力地支持了这样一种观点,即在完全动态的状态下,一旦电流片发展、变薄并在纵横比上达到这个临界阈值,撕裂模式就能够触发等离子体团的形成和在局部(理想)阿尔夫维尼时间尺度上的重连,这是解释太阳和天体物理等离子体中经常观察到的爆炸性耀斑活动所必需的。

英文摘要:

We study the linear and nonlinear evolution of the tearing instability on thin current sheets by means of two-dimensional numerical simulations, within the framework of compressible, resistive magnetohydrodynamics. In particular we analyze the behavior of current sheets whose inverse aspect ratio scales with the Lundquist number $S$ as $S^{-1/3}$. This scaling has been recently recognized to yield the threshold separating fast, ideal reconnection, with an evolution and growth which are independent of $S$ provided this is high enough, as it should be natural having the ideal case as a limit for $S\to\infty$. Our simulations confirm that the tearing instability growth rate can be as fast as $γ\approx 0.6\,{τ_A}^{-1}$, where $τ_A$ is the ideal Alfvénic time set by the macroscopic scales, for our least diffusive case with $S=10^7$. The expected instability dispersion relation and eigenmodes are also retrieved in the linear regime, for the values of $S$ explored here. Moreover, in the nonlinear stage of the simulations we observe secondary events obeying the same critical scaling with $S$, here calculated on the \emph{local}, much smaller lengths, leading to increasingly faster reconnection. These findings strongly support the idea that in a fully dynamic regime, as soon as current sheets develop, thin and reach this critical threshold in their aspect ratio, the tearing mode is able to trigger plasmoid formation and reconnection on the local (ideal) Alfvénic timescales, as required to explain the explosive flaring activity often observed in solar and astrophysical plasmas.

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