Barkov, MV and Komissarov, SS (2016) Relativistic tearing and drift-kink instabilities in two-fluid simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 458 (2). pp. 1939-1947. ISSN 0035-8711
Abstract
The stability of current sheets in collisionless relativistic pair plasma was studied via two-dimensional two-fluid relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations with vanishing internal friction between fluids. In particular, we investigated the linear growth of the tearing and drift-kink modes in the current sheets both with and without the guide field and obtained the growth rates which are very similar to what has been found in the corresponding particle in cell (PIC) simulations. This suggests that the two-fluid simulations can be useful in studying the large-scale dynamics of astrophysical relativistic plasmas in problems involving magnetic reconnection.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. © 2016 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society |
Keywords: | magnetic fields; MHD; plasmas; relativistic processes; waves; methods: numerical |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Mathematics (Leeds) > Applied Mathematics (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Science & Technology Facilities Council(STFC) ST/K000853/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 15 Jul 2016 12:06 |
Last Modified: | 15 Jul 2016 12:06 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw384 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/mnras/stw384 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:97629 |