Fast magnetic reconnection with small shock angles

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Jun 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992jgr....97.8277y&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 97, no. A6, June 1, 1992, p. 8277-8293. Research supported by NASA.

Physics

83

Computerized Simulation, Magnetic Field Reconnection, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow, Plasma-Electromagnetic Interaction, Shock Waves, Current Sheets, Incompressible Flow, Reynolds Number, Two Dimensional Flow

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The Petschek (1964) mechanism, generalized by Priest and Forbes (1986), was studied using a 2D incompressible MHD simulation. Various regimes predicted by Priest and Forbes are obtained for different boundary conditions on the outflow boundary. They include a weak fast-mode expansion, slow-mode compression, slow-mode expansion, and a hybrid regime of fast-mode and slow-mode expansion. The width and the length of the current sheet for different parameters obtained in the simulations were found to be consistent with theoretical values.

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