Onset of fast reconnection in Hall magnetohydrodynamics mediated by the plasmoid instability

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Huang, Yi Min ^a   Bhattacharjee, A ^a   Sullivan, Brian P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT SHEETS; FAST RECONNECTION; GEOMETRICAL FEATURES; HALL MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; HALL MHD; INTERMEDIATE REGIMES; ION SKIN DEPTH; KINETIC MODELS; KINETIC SIMULATION; PHYSICAL EFFECTS; SYSTEM SIZE; X-POINT; X-POINT GEOMETRY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETIC THEORY; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MODELS; TOPOLOGY;

STABILITY;

EID: 79961161825     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3606363     Document Type: Article

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