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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Detalhes bibliográficos
Principais autores: Loureiro, Nuno F., Uzdensky, Dmitri A., Tolman, Elizabeth Ann
Outros Autores: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Formato: Artigo
Publicado em: Cambridge University Press 2018
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117098