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Blob formation and acceleration in the solar wind: role of converging flows and viscosity
Giovanni Lapenta, Anna Lisa Restante
The effect of viscosity and of converging flows on the formation of blobs in the slow solar wind is analysed by means of resistive MHD simulations. The regions above coronal stream…
Modeling the Large Scale Structures of Astrophysical Jets in the Magnetically Dominated Limit
Hui Li
We suggest a new approach that could be used for modeling both the large scale behavior of astrophysical jets and the magnetically dominated explosions in astrophysics. We describe…
Electron acceleration and heating in collisionless magnetic reconnection
Paolo Ricci, Giovanni Lapenta, J. U. Brackbill
We discuss electron acceleration and heating during collisionless magnetic reconnection by using the results of implicit kinetic simulations of Harris current sheets. We consider a…
Kinetic simulations of collisionless magnetic reconnection in presence of a guide field
P. Ricci, J. U. Brackbill, W. Daughton +1
The results of kinetic simulations of magnetic reconnection in Harris current sheets are analyzed. A range of guide fields is considered to study reconnection in plasmas characteri…
Soliton-Like Solutions of the Grad-Shafranov Equation
Giovanni Lapenta
A new class of soliton-like solutions is derived for the Grad-Shafranov (GS) equations. A mathematical analogy between the GS equation for MHD equilibria and the cubic Schrödinger…