PLUTO Test Problems
4.4-patch2
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Reconnection test (Harris sheet) in 2D. More...
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void | InitDomain (Data *d, Grid *grid) |
In this setup we reproduce a 2D Harris current sheet in the Hall MHD framework. The setup, where we make use of an Isothermal EoS, is the same as the 2D Harris current sheet provided in /Test_Problems/MHD/Resistive_MHD/Current_Sheet/ (see also Section 5.3 of Mignone et al., ApJS (2012) 198:7).
Configuration #01 includes Hall MHD while configuration #02 use classical MHD without resistivity (ideal case). Fig. 1 shows current density and magnetic field lines for configuration #01 at
. A comparison between Hall and classical MHD is shown in fig. 2, where we plot the reconnected flux
as a function of time.
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