Abstract
The third-order accurate upwind compact difference scheme has been applied for the numerical study of the magnetic reconnection driven by a plasma blob impacting the heliospheric current sheet, under the framework of the two-dimensional compressible magnetohydrodynamics. The results show that the driven reconnection near the current sheet could occur in about 10-30 min for the interplanetary high magnetic Reynolds number, R M = 2000-10,000, a stable magnetic reconnection structure can be formed in hour order of magnitude, and there appear some basic properties such as the multiple X-line reconnections, vortex structures, filament current systems, splitting and collapse of the high-density plasma blob. These results are helpful in understanding and identifying the magnetic reconnection phenomena possibly occurring near the heliospheric current sheets.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2303-2307 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Advances in Space Research |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2005 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Heliospheric current sheet
- Magnetic reconnection
- Numerical study
- Space plasma
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