Visco–resistive dissipation in transient reconnection driven by the Orszag–Tang vortex

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Visco–resistive dissipation in transient reconnection driven by the Orszag–Tang vortex

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University of Waikato

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Viscous effects are expected to significantly contribute to reconnective energy release mechanisms in solar flares. While simple scaling arguments based on head-on reconnection suggest that viscous dissipation may dominate resistive dissipation, it is not clear whether these findings can be applied in more general merging situations. Here we perform side-by-side planar reconnection simulations driven by the Orszag-Tang vortex, for both classical and Braginskii forms of the viscosity. This for...

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2013

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Armstrong, Craig Keith / Craig, Ian J.D.

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https://hdl.handle.net/10289/7254

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Flares / models / Magnetic reconnection / theory / Magnetohydrodynamics

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