Statistics – Computation
Scientific paper
Jan 1984
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984apj...276..391s&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 276, Jan. 1, 1984, p. 391-398.
Statistics
Computation
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Magnetic Field Reconnection, Magnetohydrodynamic Stability, Solar Flares, Solar Magnetic Field, Tearing Modes (Plasmas), Thermal Instability, Lorentz Force, Magnetic Field Reconnection, Resistance Heating, Reynolds Number, Solar Atmosphere
Scientific paper
Two energy modification mechanisms which are known to occur in sheared magnetic fields are the tearing and thermal instabilities. These processes can be studied separately with formalisms incorporating just the effective driving mechanism of interest (finite resistivity for the tearing mode and unstable radiation for the thermal mode). A model which includes both effects, and a temperature-dependent resistivity, indicates that modified forms of these two instabilities may coexist for identical physical conditions. When they are isolated computationally, one can show that their limiting growth rates are approximately those of the uncoupled instabilities. The spatial structure and energy content of these two new hybrid processes are then individually examined and are found to differ considerably from those obtained from separate treatments of the driving mechanisms. The faster radiative instability, which has a hydromagnetically scaled growth rate like the condensation mode of the thermal instability, is shown to involve a substantial amount of magnetic field reconnection. This can be partially explained by a large temperature drop (or resistivity rise) at the X-point. The island width of the Coulomb-coupled radiative mode is 30 percent of that produced by a comparable level of the slower tearing instability. In addition, the perturbed magnetic energy in the radiative instability is 5 times that of the perturbed thermal energy, indicating an appreciable modification of the initial magnetic structure.
Steinolfson Richard S.
van Hoven Gerard
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