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In the last two decades, a wide variety of plasmoids events have been observed, ranging from space and astrophysical phenomenon to magnetically confined laboratory plasmas, in which there are a lot of evidence of observational plasmoid-like features supported by direct large-scaled computer simulations. A super-Alfvénic instability, named plasmoid instability, occurs in an extended current sheet, when the Lundquist number exceeds a critical value. The large-aspect-ratio current sheet is fragmented by generating, growing, coalescing and ejecting of plasmoids so that this phenomenon has been proposed as a possible mechanism for fast reconnection scenario. This super-Alfvénic plasmoid instability has been usedin the significant new development of reconnection theory, and thus can provide alternative and more convincing mechanism for fast reconnection. In this work, a “driving” kind of shear flow in the out-of-plane direction is imposed on a two-dimensional, three-component magnetohydrodynamic model with a current sheet system to study the dynamic process of the plasmoids in a current sheet system. The effect of the width and strength of the driving flow on the reconnection rate of plasmoids are numerically analyzed in detail. It is found that the plasmoids are easily formed in the case of strong and wide out-of-plane driving flow. The reconnection rate and the number of the plasmoids increase with the driving flow width and/or driving flow strength increasing. In the presence of guiding field, it is found that the symmetry of the plasmoids is broken in the reconnection plane. In addition, for the fixed guiding field, the growth rate of plasmoids increases much faster when the strength of driving flow increases.
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Keywords:
- magnetic reconnection /
- plasma driving flow /
- plasmiods /
- guiding field
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图 1 垂直磁重联平面的驱动流剖面
Figure 1. Profiles of the out-of-plane driving flows.
图 2 无驱动流情况下的磁岛位型 (a), (b), (c), (d)分别为时间t = 70, t = 74, t = 80和t = 120的结构, 黑线和背景颜色分别为重联平面的磁力线分布和垂直平面的电流密度
Figure 2. The magnetic configuration without driving flow at (a) t = 70, (b) t = 74, (c) t = 80, (d) t = 120. The black lines and background colors indicate the magnetic field line in the reconnection plane and the current density in out-of-plane direction, respectively.
图 3 加入宽度LS = 0.05、强度U0 = 0.1的驱动流时, 磁岛链的演化过程 (a), (b), (c)分别为时间t = 70, t = 80和t = 110的结构, 黑线和背景颜色分别为重联平面的磁力线分布和垂直平面的电流密度
Figure 3. Evolution of magnetic configuration with out-of-plane driving flow for LS = 0.05, U0 = 0.1 at (a) t = 70, (b) t = 80, (c) t = 110. The black lines and background colors indicate the magnetic field line in the reconnection plane and the current density in out-of-plane direction, respec-tively.
图 4 加入宽度LS = 0.3, 强度U0 = 0.1 驱动流情况下的磁岛位型 (a), (b), (c)为时间t = 80, t = 110和t = 118的结构, 黑线和背景颜色分别为重联平面的磁力线分布和垂直平面的电流密度
Figure 4. The magnetic configuration with out-of-plane dri-ving flow for LS = 0.3, U0 = 0.1 at (a) t = 80, (b) t = 110, (c) t = 118. The black lines and background colors indicate the magnetic field line in the reconnection plane and the current density in out-of-plane direction, respectively.
图 5 相同宽度LS = 0.3, 不同强度的驱动流, 重联通量随时间的演化
Figure 5. The evolution of reconnected flux with different driving flow strength.
图 6 加入相同宽度LS = 0.3, 不同强度的驱动流时的典型磁岛位型, 黑线和背景颜色分别为重联平面的磁力线分布和垂直平面的电流密度 (a)无驱动流的情况t = 120的结构; (b)加入强度U0 = 0.1的情况在t = 118的结构; (c)加入强度U0 = 0.2的情况在t = 97的结构; (d)加入强度U0 = 0.3的情况在t = 88的结构
Figure 6. The magnetic configuration with out-of-plane dri-ving flow with different strength for LS = 0.3 in the same phase. The black lines and background colors indicate the magnetic field line in the reconnection plane and the current density in out-of-plane direction, respectively: (a) Without driving flow at t = 120; (b) with U0 = 0.1 at t = 118; (c) with U0 = 0.2 at t = 97; (d) with U0 = 0.3 at t = 88.
图 7 导向场By = 0.1, 驱动流宽度LS = 0.05、强度U0 = 0.1情况下的磁岛位型 (a), (b), (c)分别为时间t = 100, t = 110和t = 119的结构, 黑线和背景颜色分别为重联平面的磁力线分布和垂直平面的电流密度
Figure 7. The magnetic configuration is effected by out-of-plane driving flow with LS = 0.05, U0 = 0.1 and guilding field By = 0.1 at (a) t = 100, (b) t = 110, (c) t = 119. The black lines and background colors indicate the magnetic field line in the reconnection plane and the current density in out-of-plane direction, respectively.
图 8 驱动流宽度LS = 0.3, 强度U0 = 0.1, 导向场By = 0.1的情况下, 磁岛位形的演化 (a), (b), (c)分别为时间t = 70, t = 80和t = 88的结构, 黑线和背景颜色分别为重联平面的磁力线分布和垂直平面的电流密度
Figure 8. Evolution of the magnetic configuration with out-of-plane driving flow for LS = 0.3, U0 = 0.1 and guilding field By = 0.1 at (a) t = 70; (b) t = 80; (c) t = 88. The black lines and background colors indicate the magnetic field line in the reconnection plane and the current density in out-of-plane direction, respectively.
图 9 (a)驱动流宽度LS = 0.05, 强度U0 = 0.1时, 不同导向场By重联通量随时间的演化; (b)导向场By = 0.1, 驱动流宽度LS = 0.05时, 不同强度U0下重联通量随时间的演化; (c)导向场By = 0.1, 驱动流宽度LS = 0.05时, 小磁岛宽度的增长速度对强度U0的依赖关系
Figure 9. (a) Evolution of the reconnection flux with out-of-plane driving flow for LS = 0.05, U0 = 0.1 and different guilding field; (b) evolution of the reconnection flux with different driving flow strength and guilding field By = 0.1; (c) dependence of the growth rate of plasmoid on different driving flow strength with guilding field By = 0.1.
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[1] Parker E N 1963 Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser. 8 177
Google Scholar
[2] Sweet P A 1969 Annu. Rev. Astron. Astr. 7 149
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[3] Yokoyama T, Akita K, Morimoto T, Inoue K, Newmark J 2001 Astrophys. J. Lett. 546 L69
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[4] Dungey J W 1961 Phys. Rev. Lett. 6 47
Google Scholar
[5] Bhattacharjee A 2004 Annu. Rev. Astron. Astr. 42 365
Google Scholar
[6] Hastie R J 1997 Astrophys. Space Sci. 256 177
Google Scholar
[7] Chapman I T, Scannell R, Cooper W A, Graves J P, Hastie R J, Naylor G, Zocco A 2010 Phys. Rev. Lett. 105 255002
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[12] Biskamp D 1986 Phys. Fluids. 29 1520
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Google Scholar
[17] Lin J, Cranmer S R, Farrugia C J 2008 J. Geophys. Res. 113 D11107
Google Scholar
[18] Bhattacharjee A, Huang Y M, Yang H, Rogers B 2009 Phys. Plasmas 16 112102
Google Scholar
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