Forced magnetic reconnection

Abstract

This is a tutorial-style selective review explaining basic concepts of forced magnetic reconnection. It is based on a celebrated model of forced reconnection suggested by J. B. Taylor. The standard magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) theory of this process has been pioneered by Hahm & Kulsrud (Phys. Fluids 28, 2412, 1985). Here we also discuss several more recent developments related to this problem. These include energetics of forced reconnection, its Hall-mediated regime, and nonlinear effects with the associated onset of the secondary tearing (plasmoid) instability.

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• Instability of current sheets and formation of plasmoid chains
• Fast Reconnection in High-Lundquist-Number Plasmas Due to Secondary Tearing Instabilities
• Fast magnetic reconnection in the plasmoid-dominated regime
• General Theory of the Plasmoid Instability
• Magnetic Reconnection Onset via Disruption of a Forming Current Sheet by the Tearing Instability
• Twisting, reconnecting magnetospheres and magnetar spindown
• Extended theory of the Taylor problem in the plasmoid-unstable regime
• Partial Field Opening and Current Sheet Formation in the Disk Magnetosphere
• Formation of Plasmoid Chains in Fusion Relevant Plasmas
• Hall-mediated magnetic reconnection and onset of plasmoid instability

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• On the observations of rapid forced reconnection in the solar corona
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• The prominence driven forced reconnection in the solar corona and associated plasma dynamics