General Theory of the Plasmoid Instability
By L. Comisso, M. Lingam, Yi-Min Huang, Ashis Bhattacharjee. 2016
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A general theory of the onset and development of the plasmoid instability is formulated by means of a principle of least time. The scaling relations for the final aspect ratio, transition time to rapid onset, growth rate, and number of plasmoids are derived, and shown to depend on the initial perturbation amplitude $\left({\hat w}_0\right)$, the characteristic rate of current sheet evolution $\left(1/\tau\right)$, and the Lundquist number $\left(S\right)$. They are not simple power laws, and are proportional to $S^{\alpha} \tau^{\beta} \left[\ln f(S,\tau,{\hat w}_0)\right]^\sigma$. The detailed dynamics of the instability is also elucidated, and shown to comprise of a period of quiescence followed by sudden growth over a short time scale.
Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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- The Interplay of Magnetically Dominated Turbulence and Magnetic Reconnection in Producing Nonthermal Particles (2019, methodology): “…index 2 ∆′ = 2 λ ( 1 kξλ − kξλ ) , (18) it can be shown that the dominant tearing mode at current sheet disruption scales like the fastest growing mode (see Comisso et al. (2016, 2017); Huang et al. (2017)), so that the instability wavenumber at current sheet disruption turns out to be…”