| Self-feeding turbulent magnetic reconnection on macroscopic scales. | |
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PMID: 18643511 Owner: NLM Status: PubMed-not-MEDLINE |
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Within a MHD approach we find magnetic reconnection to progress in two entirely different ways. The first is well known: the laminar Sweet-Parker process. But a second, completely different and chaotic reconnection process is possible. This regime has properties of immediate practical relevance: (i) it is much faster, developing on scales of the order of the Alfvén time, and (ii) the areas of reconnection become distributed chaotically over a macroscopic region. The onset of the faster process is the formation of closed-circulation patterns where the jets going out of the reconnection regions turn around and force their way back in, carrying along copious amounts of magnetic flux. |
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Giovanni Lapenta |
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2008-06-09 |
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Title: Physical review letters Volume: 100 ISSN: 0031-9007 ISO Abbreviation: Phys. Rev. Lett. Publication Date: 2008 Jun |
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Created Date: 2008-07-22 Completed Date: 2008-08-12 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0401141 Medline TA: Phys Rev Lett Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 235001 Citation Subset: - |
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Centrum voor Plasma-Astrofysica, Departement Wiskunde, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. |
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