Development of tearing instability in a current sheet forming by sheared incompressible flow
Sweet–Parker current sheets in high Lundquist number plasmas are unstable to tearing, suggesting they will not form in physical systems. Understanding magnetic reconnection thus requires study of the stability of a current sheet as it forms. Formation can occur due to sheared, sub-Alfvénic incompres...
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Cambridge University Press
2018
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117098 |