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Fast magnetic reconnection and the coalescence instability

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Fast magnetic reconnection and the coalescence instability
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University of Waikato
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The magnetic reconnection that occurs during the nonlinear development of the coalescence instability is considered. The structure of the reconnection region at the time of maximum current as a function of the resistivity η is analyzed in detail using a compressible magnetohydrodynamic fluid code. It is shown that the numerical results concur remarkably well with a simple scaling analysis which predicts the dependence of the reconnection region structure on η. It is argued that the flow topol...

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Journal article
Date created
1993-03
Creator
Craig, Ian J.D.
URL
https://hdl.handle.net/10289/1274
Related subjects
mathematics / magnetic reconnection / coalescence / instability / magnetohydrodynamics / numerical solution / scaling laws / topology

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