The effect of anisotropic viscosity on the nonlinear MHD kink instability

DOI10.1016/j.cnsns.2019.105131zbMath1450.76014arXiv1912.01076OpenAlexW2990110840WikidataQ126745077 ScholiaQ126745077MaRDI QIDQ2207809

James Quinn, David MacTaggart, Radostin D. Simitev

Publication date: 23 October 2020

Published in: Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01076

zbMATH Keywords

secondary instabilitymagnetic reconnectionmagnetic relaxation3D Lagrangian-Eulerian remap code

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability (76E30) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15) Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

Uses Software

• MayaVi
• Mayavi

Cites Work

• Heating the corona by nanoflares: simulations of energy release triggered by a kink instability
• Steady state reconnection at a single 3D magnetic null point
• Braginskii magnetohydrodynamics for arbitrary magnetic topologies: coronal applications
• A staggered grid, Lagrangian-Eulerian remap code for 3-D MHD simulations

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