Acta Physica Sinica, Volume. 69, Issue 5, 059401-1(2020)

Effect of out-of-plane driving flow on formation of plasmoids in current sheet system

Lin Wang, Lai Wei*, and Zheng-Xiong Wang
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  • School of Physics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
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    Profiles of the out-of-plane driving flows.
    The magnetic configuration without driving flow at (a) t = 70, (b) t = 74, (c) t = 80, (d) t = 120. The black lines and background colors indicate the magnetic field line in the reconnection plane and the current density in out-of-plane direction, respectively.
    Evolution of magnetic configuration with out-of-plane driving flow for LS = 0.05, U0 = 0.1 at (a) t = 70, (b) t = 80, (c) t = 110. The black lines and background colors indicate the magnetic field line in the reconnection plane and the current density in out-of-plane direction, respec-tively.
    The magnetic configuration with out-of-plane dri-ving flow for LS = 0.3, U0 = 0.1 at (a) t = 80, (b) t = 110, (c) t = 118. The black lines and background colors indicate the magnetic field line in the reconnection plane and the current density in out-of-plane direction, respectively.
    The evolution of reconnected flux with different driving flow strength.
    The magnetic configuration with out-of-plane dri-ving flow with different strength for LS = 0.3 in the same phase. The black lines and background colors indicate the magnetic field line in the reconnection plane and the current density in out-of-plane direction, respectively: (a) Without driving flow at t = 120; (b) with U0 = 0.1 at t = 118; (c) with U0 = 0.2 at t = 97; (d) with U0 = 0.3 at t = 88.
    The magnetic configuration is effected by out-of-plane driving flow with LS = 0.05, U0 = 0.1 and guilding field By = 0.1 at (a) t = 100, (b) t = 110, (c) t = 119. The black lines and background colors indicate the magnetic field line in the reconnection plane and the current density in out-of-plane direction, respectively.
    Evolution of the magnetic configuration with out-of-plane driving flow for LS = 0.3, U0 = 0.1 and guilding field By = 0.1 at (a) t = 70; (b) t = 80; (c) t = 88. The black lines and background colors indicate the magnetic field line in the reconnection plane and the current density in out-of-plane direction, respectively.
    (a) Evolution of the reconnection flux with out-of-plane driving flow for LS = 0.05, U0 = 0.1 and different guilding field; (b) evolution of the reconnection flux with different driving flow strength and guilding field By = 0.1; (c) dependence of the growth rate of plasmoid on different driving flow strength with guilding field By = 0.1.
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    Lin Wang, Lai Wei, Zheng-Xiong Wang. Effect of out-of-plane driving flow on formation of plasmoids in current sheet system[J]. Acta Physica Sinica, 2020, 69(5): 059401-1

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    Received: Oct. 22, 2019

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    Published Online: Nov. 18, 2020

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    DOI:10.7498/aps.69.20191612

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