EMHD simulations of reconnection and instabilities

Physical problems: electron-scale magnetic reconnection, electron shear flow instabilities

Numerical code: EMHD (electron-MHD) code

Relevant publications:

Jain, N., von Stechow, A., Muñoz, P. A., Büchner, J., Grulke, O., & Klinger, T. (2017). Electron-magnetohydrodynamic simulations of electron scale current sheet dynamics in the Vineta.II guide field reconnection experiment. Physics of Plasmas, 24, 92312. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5004564
Jain, N., & Büchner, J. (2017). Spreading of electron scale magnetic reconnection with a wave number dependent speed due to the propagation of dispersive waves. Physics of Plasmas, 24(8), 82304. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4994704
Jain, N., Büchner, J., & Muñoz, P. A. (2017). Nonlinear evolution of electron shear flow instabilities in the presence of an external guide magnetic field. Physics of Plasmas, 24, 32303. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4977528
Jain, N., & Büchner, J. (2015). Effect of guide field on three-dimensional electron shear flow instabilities in electron current sheets. Journal of Plasma Physics, 81(6), 905810606. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022377815001257
Jain, N., & Sharma, A. S. (2015). Evolution of electron current sheets in collisionless magnetic reconnection. Physics of Plasmas, 22(10), 102110. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4933120
Jain, N., & Büchner, J. (2014). Nonlinear evolution of three-dimensional instabilities of thin and thick electron scale current sheets: Plasmoid formation and current filamentation. Physics of Plasmas, 21(7), 72306. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4887279
Jain, N., & Büchner, J. (2014). Three dimensional instabilities of an electron scale current sheet in collisionless magnetic reconnection. Physics of Plasmas, 21(6), 62116. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4885636
Jain, N., Büchner, J., Dorfman, S., Ji, H., & Surjalal Sharma, A. (2013). Current disruption and its spreading in collisionless magnetic reconnection. Physics of Plasmas, 20(11), 112101. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4827828