Plasmoid instability in high-Lundquist-number magnetic reconnection

Huang, Yi-Min; Bhattacharjee, A.

doi:10.1063/1.4802941

Title: Plasmoid instability in high-Lundquist-number magnetic reconnection

Journal Article · Mon Apr 29 00:00:00 EDT 2013 · Physics of Plasmas

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4802941· OSTI ID:1565005

Huang, Yi-Min ^[1]; Bhattacharjee, A. ^[2]

Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH (United States)
Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH (United States); Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)

Our understanding of magnetic reconnection in resistive magnetohydrodynamics has gone through a fundamental change in recent years. The conventional wisdom is that magnetic reconnection mediated by resistivity is slow in laminar high Lundquist (S) plasmas, constrained by the scaling of the reconnection rate predicted by Sweet-Parker theory. However, recent studies have shown that when S exceeds a critical value ~10⁴, the Sweet-Parker current sheet is unstable to a super-Alfvénic plasmoid instability, with a linear growth rate that scales as S^1/4. In the fully developed statistical steady state of two-dimensional resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulations, the normalized average reconnection rate is approximately 0.01, nearly independent of S, and the distribution function f(ψ) of plasmoid magnetic flux ψ follows a power law f(ψ)~ψ^-1. When Hall effects are included, the plasmoid instability may trigger onset of Hall reconnection even when the conventional criterion for onset is not satisfied. The rich variety of possible reconnection dynamics is organized in the framework of a phase diagram.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

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OSTI ID:: 1565005

Journal Information:: Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 20, Issue 5; ISSN 1070-664X

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