Analysis of fast turbulent reconnection with self-consistent determination of turbulence timescale
arXiv:1905.01527 · doi:10.1063/1.5109020
Abstract
We present results of Reynolds-averaged turbulence model simulation on the problem of magnetic reconnection. In the model, in addition to the mean density, momentum, magnetic field, and energy equations, the evolution equations of the turbulent cross-helicity , turbulent energy and its dissipation rate are simultaneously solved to calculate the rate of magnetic reconnection for a Harris-type current sheet. In contrast to previous works based on algebraic modeling, the turbulence timescale is self-determined by the nonlinear evolutions of and , their ratio being a timescale. We compare the reconnection rate produced by our mean-field model to the resistive non-turbulent MHD rate. To test whether different regimes of reconnection are produced, we vary the initial strength of turbulent energy and study the effect on the amount of magnetic flux reconnected in time.
arXiv comment10 pages, 7 figures
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