Magnetic reconnection is known as an essential process to convert stored energy of magnetic field into the kinetic, thermal energy of plasma and the acceleration of charged particles in astrophysical and space plasmas. In this paper, we investigate some features of test particle acceleration during spine reconnection with an asymmetric current sheet. To do so, […]
The nonlinear evolution of the magnetic reconnection and onset of the plasmoid instability are investigated by using 2.5-dimensional MHD simulations when the sheared plasma flow is anti-symmetric on either side of the boundary layer. In particular, we considered a wide range of velocity amplitude of shear flow (V0) (from sub-Alfvénic to level of super-Alfvénic) and […]
