Plasmoid instability in the semi-collisional regime

We investigate analytically and numerically the semi-collisional regime of the plasmoid instability, defined by the inequality 𝛿 [subscript]SP << 𝜌 [subscript]s << 𝛿 [subscript]in, where 𝛿 [subscript]SP is the width of a Sweet–Parker current sheet, 𝜌 [subscript]s is the ion sound Larmor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bhat, Pallavi, Gomes Loureiro, Nuno F
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124160