Magnetic reconnection and stochastic plasmoid chains in high-Lundquist-number plasmas

N. F. Loureiro, R. Samtaney, A. A. Schekochihin +1

A numerical study of magnetic reconnection in the large-Lundquist-number ($S$), plasmoid-dominated regime is carried out for $S$ up to $10^7$. The theoretical model of Uzdensky {\i…