Effects of local current gradients on magnetic reconnection
- 1 March 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 25 (3) , 1786-1789
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.25.1786
Abstract
The excitation of reconnecting modes is commonly considered to rely solely on global properties of the current-density distribution. Here a class of simple resistive magnetohydrodynamic models is studied analytically to show that local properties of the current profile at the reconnecting surface become important in some realistic physical regimes.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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