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Fast Reconnection in High-Lundquist-Number Plasmas Due to Secondary Tearing Instabilities
A. Bhattacharjee, Yi-Min Huang, H. Yang +1
Thin current sheets in systems of large size that exceed a critical value of the Lundquist number are unstable to a super-Alfvenic tearing instability. The scaling of the growth ra…
physics.plasm-ph2009★ 3 cited
The scaling of forced collisionless reconnection in two and three dimensions
Brian P. Sullivan, Barrett N. Rogers
This paper presents two-fluid simulations of forced magnetic reconnection with finite electron inertia in a collisionless three-dimensional (3D) cube with periodic boundaries in al…