The coalescence of magnetic islands in the low-resistivity eta, Hall-MHD regime is studied. The interaction between the ion inertial length d(i) and the dynamically evolving current sheet scale length deltaJ is established. Initially, d(i) << deltaJ. If eta is such that deltaJ dynamically thins down to d(i) prior to the well-known sloshing phenomena, then sloshing is avoided. This results in et...

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) was used to monitor the movement of a fluorinated hydrocarbon dense nonaqueous phase liquid (DNAPL) through a saturated porous medium within a laboratory column. Impedance measurements were made using a horizontal plane of 12 electrodes positioned at regular intervals around the centre of the column. A 2D inversion algorithm, which incorporated the cylindri...

A model of the electrical resistivity of Mt. Vesuvius has been elaborated to investigate the present structure of the volcanic edifice. The model is based on electrical conductivity measurements in the laboratory, on geophysical information, in particular, magnetotelluric (MT) data, and on petrological and geochemical constraints. Both 1-D and 3-D simulations explored the effect of depth, volum...

The resistive properties of various tissues surrounding the heart were investigated in a number of living clogs. Alternating currents of a frequency varying between 10 and 10,000 e.p.s. have been used for this purpose. Technical problems associated with such measurements are analyzed. The results show that the resistive properties of most tissues are comparable and that the resistivity decrease...

For the understandings of the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) characteristics in plasma, the spectrum of the resistive MHD modes are investigated in detail by solving the eigenvalue problem of the reduced MHD equations in cylindrical tokamak plasmas. The eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the resistive MHD modes are clarified for small toroidal and poloidal mode numbers, and the discrete eigenvalues w...

Converged computations with the DEBS code indicate that, within the force-free resistive MHD model in a doubly periodic cylinder with perfectly conducting boundary conditions, the appearance of single-helicity or multihelicity states is determined primarily by the Hartmann number, and is relatively independent of the pinch parameter or the degree of field reversal. 1 Similarity Scaling in Visco...

The Plasma resistivity has been measured in the edge plasma of IR-T1 tokamak. To achive the edge plasma properties ( Te and ne ) using I-V characteristics of movable single langmuir probe. Density and temperature of electron, respectively ne and Te, are measured simultaneously for calculating the radial profile of parallel and vertical resistivity. As temperature of plasma raised, resistivity d...

Magnetic reconnection is an important process providing a fast conversion of magnetic energy into thermal and kinetic plasma energy. In this concern, a key problem is that of the resistive diffusion region where the reconnection process is initiated. In this paper, the diffusion region is associated with a nonuniform conductivity localized to a small region. The nonsteady resistive incompressib...