Magnetic reconnection in nontoroidal plasmas

Details Magnetic reconnection in nontoroidal plasmas Magnetic reconnection in nontoroidal plasmas

Jul 2005

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Physics of Plasmas, Volume 12, Issue 7, pp. 070706-070706-4 (2005).

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Magnetic Reconnection, Magnetohydrodynamics And Plasmas

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Magnetic reconnection is a major issue in solar and astrophysical plasmas. The mathematical result that the evolution of a magnetic field with only point nulls is always locally ideal limits the nature of reconnection in nontoroidal plasmas. Here it is shown that the exponentially increasing separation of neighboring magnetic field lines, which is generic, tends to produce rapid magnetic reconnection if the length of the field lines is greater than about 20 times the exponentiation, or Lyapunov, length.

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