On the instability of a quasiequilibrium current sheet and the onset of impulsive bursty reconnection

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Skender, Marina ^a   Lapenta, Giovanni ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR PLASMA ASTROPHYSICS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT SHEETS; GEOMETRICAL PROPERTY; LUNDQUIST NUMBER; MAXIMUM VALUES; NON-UNIFORM GRIDS; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; QUASI-EQUILIBRIUM; RECONNECTING CURRENT SHEETS;

PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

ASPECT RATIO;

EID: 77749273893     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3299326     Document Type: Article

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