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most citedInstability of current sheets and formation of plasmoid chains

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physics.plasm-ph201293 cited

On the Distribution of Plasmoids In High-Lundquist-Number Magnetic Reconnection

Yi-Min Huang, A. Bhattacharjee

The distribution function of magnetic flux in plasmoids formed in high-Lundquist-number current sheets is studied by means of an analytic phenomenological model and dire…

physics.plasm-ph201220 cited

Gyrokinetic studies of the effect of beta on drift-wave stability in NCSX

J. A. Baumgaertel, G. W. Hammett, D. R. Mikkelsen +2

The gyrokinetic turbulence code GS2 was used to investigate the effects of plasma beta on linear, collisionless ion temperature gradient (ITG) modes and trapped electron modes (TEM…

physics.plasm-ph201213 cited

Comparing linear ion-temperature-gradient-driven mode stability of the National Compact Stellarator Experiment and a shaped tokamak

J. A. Baumgaertel, G. W. Hammett, D. R. Mikkelsen

One metric for comparing confinement properties of different magnetic fusion energy configurations is the linear critical gradient of drift wave modes. The critical gradient scale…

physics.plasm-ph20128 cited

Resistive and ferritic-wall plasma dynamos in a sphere

I. V. Khalzov, B. P. Brown, E. J. Kaplan +5

We numerically study the effects of varying electric conductivity and magnetic permeability of the bounding wall on a kinematic dynamo in a sphere for parameters relevant to Madiso…

physics.flu-dyn201243 cited

Observation of a Free-Shercliff-Layer Instability in Cylindrical Geometry

Austin Roach, Erik Spence, Christophe Gissinger +4

We report on observations of a free-Shercliff-layer instability in a Taylor-Couette experiment using a liquid metal over a wide range of Reynolds numbers, . The f…

physics.flu-dyn201222 cited

Bistability between equatorial and axial dipoles during magnetic field reversals

Christophe Gissinger, Ludovic Petitdemange, Martin Schrinner +1

Numerical simulations of the geodynamo in presence of an heterogeneous heating are presented. We study the dynamics and the structure of the magnetic field when the equatorial symm…