Magnetic reconnection: MHD theory and modelling

DI Pontin, ER Priest - Living Reviews in Solar Physics, 2022 - Springer
In this review we focus on the fundamental theory of magnetohydrodynamic reconnection,
together with applications to understanding a wide range of dynamic processes in the solar …

Magnetic reconnection in astrophysical and laboratory plasmas

EG Zweibel, M Yamada - Annual review of astronomy and …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Magnetic reconnection is a topological rearrangement of magnetic field that converts
magnetic energy to plasma energy. Astrophysical flares, from the Earth's magnetosphere to …

[图书][B] An introduction to modern astrophysics

BW Carroll, DA Ostlie - 2017 - books.google.com
An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics is a comprehensive, well-organized and engaging
text covering every major area of modern astrophysics, from the solar system and stellar …

Fast reconnection in high-Lundquist-number plasmas due to the plasmoid instability

A Bhattacharjee, YM Huang, H Yang, B Rogers - Physics of Plasmas, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
Thin current sheets in systems of large size that exceed a critical value of the Lundquist
number are unstable to a super-Alfvénic tearing instability, referred to hereafter as the …

On solving the coronal heating problem

JA Klimchuk - Solar Physics, 2006 - Springer
The question of what heats the solar corona remains one of the most important problems in
astrophysics. Finding a definitive solution involves a number of challenging steps, beginning …

Instability of current sheets and formation of plasmoid chains

NF Loureiro, AA Schekochihin, SC Cowley - Physics of Plasmas, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
Current sheets formed in magnetic reconnection events are found to be unstable to high-
wavenumber perturbations. The instability is very fast: its maximum growth rate scales as S …

First-principles theory of the rate of magnetic reconnection in magnetospheric and solar plasmas

YH Liu, P Cassak, X Li, M Hesse, SC Lin… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
The rate of magnetic reconnection is of the utmost importance in a variety of processes
because it controls, for example, the rate energy is released in solar flares, the speed of the …

Numerical tests of fast reconnection in weakly stochastic magnetic fields

G Kowal, A Lazarian, ET Vishniac… - The Astrophysical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the effects of turbulence on magnetic reconnection using three-dimensional direct
numerical simulations. This is the first attempt to test a model of fast magnetic reconnection …

A review of the 0.1 reconnection rate problem

PA Cassak, YH Liu, MA Shay - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2017 - cambridge.org
A long-standing problem in magnetic reconnection is to explain why it tends to proceed at or
below a normalized rate of 0.1. This article gives a review of observational and numerical …

Scaling laws of resistive magnetohydrodynamic reconnection in the high-Lundquist-number, plasmoid-unstable regime

YM Huang, A Bhattacharjee - Physics of Plasmas, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
The Sweet–Parker layer in a system that exceeds a critical value of the Lundquist number
(S) is unstable to the plasmoid instability. In this paper, a numerical scaling study has been …