July 27, 2015 to August 21, 2015
Nordita, Stockholm
Europe/Stockholm timezone

Turbulent reconnection

Aug 13, 2015, 11:35 AM
25m
FD5 (Nordita, Stockholm)

FD5

Nordita, Stockholm

Invited Workshop, August 10-14 Pre-noon IV

Speaker

Prof. Alexander Lazarian (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)

Description

Turbulence is a natural state of high Reynolds flows and is ubiquitous in astrophysical systems. In most cases turbulence is externally driven, but one also expects the outflows induced by reconnection to get turbulent. High resolution numerical resolution reconnection simulations in 3D also show the transition to the turbulent state. Therefore it is essential to understand how turbulence affects magnetic reconnection. I shall be discussing the model of fast turbulent reconnection suggested in Lazarian & Vishniac 1999, its numerical and observational testing and its more recent extensions to the processes of reconnection in relativistic fluids and partially ionized gas. I shall show simulations obtained with different numerical schemes that support the theoretical expectations and discuss simulations of self- sustained turbulent reconnection. Finally, I shall touch upon the vast astrophysical applications of the turbulent reconnection theory.

Primary author

Prof. Alexander Lazarian (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)

Presentation materials