Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
Jul 2003
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003jgra..108.1285p&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics, Volume 108, Issue A7, pp. SSH 6-1, CiteID 1285, DOI 10.1029/2002JA009812
Physics
Plasma Physics
31
Space Plasma Physics: Magnetic Reconnection, Space Plasma Physics: Kinetic And Mhd Theory, Solar Physics, Astrophysics, And Astronomy: Magnetic Fields, Electromagnetics: Plasmas
Scientific paper
Three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic reconnection in a finite diffusion region is completely different in many respects from two-dimensional reconnection at an X-point. In two dimensions a magnetic flux velocity can always be defined: two flux tubes can break at a single point and rejoin to form two new flux tubes. In three dimensions we demonstrate that a flux tube velocity does not generally exist. The magnetic field lines continually change their connections throughout the diffusion region rather than just at one point. The effect of reconnection on two flux tubes is generally to split them into four flux tubes rather than to rejoin them perfectly. During the process of reconnection each of the four parts flips rapidly in a virtual flow that differs from the plasma velocity in the ideal region beyond the diffusion region.
Hornig Gunnar
Pontin D. I.
Priest Eric R.
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