Competition Between Coalescence and Three-Dimensional Instabilities

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Apr 2004

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PLASMAS IN THE LABORATORY AND IN THE UNIVERSE: New Insights and New Challenges. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 703, pp. 54-

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Magnetohydrodynamics, Nonlinear Phenomena: Waves, Wave Propagation, And Other Interactions, Macroinstabilities

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Many different nonlinear processes can occur in current sheets following the development of magnetic islands. Two of the most important are the coalescence instability and the secondary, or three-dimensional, instability. In this paper we describe the results of some numerical expriments in which both instabilities are present, in an effort to determine which instability will be dominant. It is our finding that, for a wide variety of initial conditions and parameters, that the secondary instability grows a a faster rate than the coalescence instability.

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