3-DIMENSIONAL STEADY-STATE MAGNETIC RECONNECTION

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作者
JARDINE, M
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[1] Astronomy Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton
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10.1017/S0022377800017657
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O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];
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070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;
摘要
A family of three-dimensional models of reconnection is presented in which the different members of the family are characterized by the vorticity with which plasma flows towards the reconnection site. The nature of this inflow also determines the size and speed of the outflow jet that carries reconnected field lines away from the reconnection site, and the shape of the MHD shocks that bound it. Flows with positive vorticity are of a flux pile-up type, for which the outflow jet is fastest and narrowest. Among those with negative vorticity is the three-dimensional analogue of Petschek reconnection. Not all combinations of vorticity and reconnection rate are possible; for those solutions with negative vorticity, there is a maximum reconnection rate. As the magnetic Reynolds number R(me), or the current density is increased, this maximum is reduced and the possible types of solution become more polarized towards the two extremes of flux pile-up and slow compression regimes. Given a distribution of vorticities and inflow speeds, these models give the corresponding distribution of possible steady-state reconnection rates. As an illustrative example, we take Gaussian distributions of both to show that the resulting distribution is dominated by the flux pile-up regime.
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