Plasmoid instability in high-Lundquist-number magnetic reconnection
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Formation of plasmoid chains in magnetic reconnection.
A detailed numerical study of magnetic reconnection in resistive MHD for very large, previously inaccessible, Lundquist numbers (10(4) <or= S <or= 10(8)) is reported. Large-aspect-ratio Sweet-Parker current sheets are shown to be unstable to super-Alfvénically fast formation of plasmoid (magnetic-island) chains. The plasmoid number scales as S(3/8) and the instability growth rate in the linear ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physics of Plasmas
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1070-664X,1089-7674
DOI: 10.1063/1.4802941