Nonlinear Evolution of the Tearing Instability in a Thin Current Sheet

IF 0.9 4区 物理与天体物理 Q4 PHYSICS, FLUIDS & PLASMAS Plasma Physics Reports Pub Date : 2024-01-27 DOI:10.1134/s1063780x23601190
S. F. Garanin, E. M. Kravets
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In plane current sheets (foils, or liners), which are thin in comparison with their skin depth, an instability may grow because parallel currents in different areas of these sheets are attracted that leads to compression of these areas and partition of the current sheets into threads. This work describes the study of the nonlinear tearing instability evolution for a 1D case, when all the principal quantities (surface current and mass densities, velocity, and the magnetic field component normal to the sheet surface) depend on the coordinate perpendicular to the current density vector only. A 1D system of equations has been obtained, which describes the magnetic field dynamics and the substance motion in current sheets, and a numerical technique based on the Lagrangian discretization of mass has been developed to solve 1D magnetic hydrodynamics problems. It is shown that, if the tearing instability is considered, small perturbations of currents, velocities and mass densities grow in accordance with the earlier found growth rates of small perturbations and later, when the perturbations are no longer small, a nonlinear growth stage comes. In this stage, the perturbations of the surface current density j and the surface mass density μ increase unlimitedly for a finite time period (apparently, according to power laws \(j\sim {{({{t}_{s}} - t)}^{{ - \alpha }}}\), \(\mu \sim {{({{t}_{s}} - t)}^{{ - \gamma }}}\), \({{t}_{s}}\) is the time, when these quantities become infinite); however the width of the current and mass density peaks tends to zero, so that the total current and total mass in the peaks of the current density and surface mass density decrease and tend to zero.

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Plasma Physics Reports
Plasma Physics Reports 物理-物理:流体与等离子体
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1.90
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期刊介绍: Plasma Physics Reports is a peer reviewed journal devoted to plasma physics. The journal covers the following topics: high-temperature plasma physics related to the problem of controlled nuclear fusion based on magnetic and inertial confinement; physics of cosmic plasma, including magnetosphere plasma, sun and stellar plasma, etc.; gas discharge plasma and plasma generated by laser and particle beams. The journal also publishes papers on such related topics as plasma electronics, generation of radiation in plasma, and plasma diagnostics. As well as other original communications, the journal publishes topical reviews and conference proceedings.
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