日本地球惑星科学連合2014年大会

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セッション記号 P (宇宙惑星科学) » P-EM 太陽地球系科学・宇宙電磁気学・宇宙環境

[P-EM32_2AM2] プラズマ宇宙:MHD現象,リコネクション,構造形成

2014年5月2日(金) 11:00 〜 12:45 503 (5F)

コンビーナ:*松清 修一(九州大学大学院総合理工学研究院流体環境理工学部門)、新田 伸也(筑波技術大学)、座長:星野 真弘(東京大学大学院理学系研究科)

12:15 〜 12:30

[PEM32-12] ペチェック型磁気リコネクションに対する熱伝導効果

*河野 隼也1横山 央明1 (1.東京大学)

キーワード:太陽フレア, 磁気リコネクション, 熱伝導, コロナ

We simulated the magnetic reconnection including the nonlinear thermal conduction effect with two-dimensional MHD equations. Magnetic reconnection is considered to be the basic process of the solar explosive phenomena. In the atmosphere with high temperature and low density like solar corona, time-scale of the nonlinear heat conduction becomes shorter and can become comparable to the Alfven time-scale. Thermal conduction effect should be considered. Previous studies have showed that, in the model of magnetic reconnection produced by Petschek, adiabatic slow mode shock wave generated from the localized diffusion region is dissociated into isothermal shock wave and conduction front due to the thermal conduction. However, the effect of the thermal conduction on the energy release rate in the magnetic reconnection is not explained enough in the past.Here we investigated how the thermal conduction influences the energy conversion rate. We calculated the energy release rate in different magnitude of the magnetic diffusivity to see the dependence on the Lundquist number. As a result, due to the thermal conduction effect, adiabatic shock wave is dissociated into isothermal shock wave and conduction front and this makes temperature in the reconnection outflow jet smaller. In the outflow region with small temperature, density becomes larger. Considering mass conservation between the mass flux in the reconnection inflow and that in the outflow, inflow velocity is accelerated because of larger density in the outflow region. This causes increase of the energy release rate in the magnetic reconnection. That increase rate tends to become larger as the magnitude of magnetic diffusivity becomes smaller. Smaller magnetic diffusivity correponds to the larger Lundquist number. In the real solar atmosphere, plasma gas has larger Lundquist number than that in this numerical simulation. This means that thermal conduction effect on the energy release rate in magnetic reconnection might become more effective in the real solar atmosphere.