Dynamic behavior and topology of 3D magnetic fields
Abstract
We investigate numerically the dynamical evolution of a boundary driven, topologically complex low β plasma. The initial state is a simple, but topologically nontrivial 3D magnetic field, and the evolution is driven by forced motions on two opposite boundaries of the computational domain. A large X-type reconnection event with a supersonic one-sided jet occurs as part of a process that brakes down the large scale topology of the initial field. An energetically steady state is reached, with a double arcade overall topology, in which the driving causes continuous creation of small scale thin current sheets at various locations in the arcade structures.
- Publication:
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Space Science Reviews
- Pub Date:
- May 1994
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00749118
- Bibcode:
- 1994SSRv...68...75G
- Keywords:
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- Solar flares;
- MHD;
- Reconnection