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Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection in Kerr Spacetime
Felipe A. Asenjo, Luca Comisso
The magnetic reconnection process is analyzed for relativistic magnetohydrodynamical plasmas around rotating black holes. A simple generalization of the Sweet-Parker model is used…
On the Value of the Reconnection Rate
Luca Comisso, Amitava Bhattacharjee
Numerical simulations have consistently shown that the reconnection rate in certain collisionless regimes can be fast, on the order of , where and are the…
General Theory of the Plasmoid Instability
L. Comisso, M. Lingam, Y. -M. Huang +1
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, tra…
Extended theory of the Taylor problem in the plasmoid-unstable regime
Luca Comisso, Daniela Grasso, François L. Waelbroeck
A fundamental problem of forced magnetic reconnection has been solved taking into account the plasmoid instability of thin reconnecting current sheets. In this problem, the reconne…
Formation of Plasmoid Chains in Fusion Relevant Plasmas
Luca Comisso, Daniela Grasso, François L. Waelbroeck
The formation of plasmoid chains is explored for the first time within the context of the Taylor problem, in which magnetic reconnection is driven by a small amplitude boundary per…
Numerical comparison between a Gyrofluid and Gyrokinetic model investigating collisionless magnetic reconnection
O. Zacharias, L. Comisso, D. Grasso +3
The first detailed comparison between gyrokinetic and gyrofluid simulations of collisionless magnetic reconnection has been carried out. Both the linear and nonlinear evolution of…