Statistical description of coalescing magnetic islands via magnetic reconnection

<jats:p>The physical picture of interacting magnetic islands provides a useful paradigm for certain plasma dynamics in a variety of physical environments, such as the solar corona, the heliosheath and the Earth's magnetosphere. In this work, we derive an island kinetic equation to describ...

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Main Authors: Zhou, Muni, Wu, David H, Loureiro, Nuno F, Uzdensky, Dmitri A
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/147146