Scaling of sweet-parker reconnection with secondary islands

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Cassak, P A ^a   Shay, M A ^b   Drake, J F ^c  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c The Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT SHEETS; LUNDQUIST NUMBER; MAGNETIC RECONNECTIONS; RECONNECTION RATE; RESISTIVE MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; SECONDARY ISLANDS; SOLAR ERUPTION; SQUARE ROOTS; SWEET-PARKER MODEL; TIME-AVERAGED;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 73849139241     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3274462     Document Type: Article

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