Nonlinear collisionless magnetic reconnection
- 6 December 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 71 (23), 3802-3805
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.71.3802
Abstract
Collisionless magnetic reconnection in regimes where the mode structure is characterized by global convection cells is found to exhibit a quasiexplosive time behavior in the early nonlinear stage where the fluid displacement is smaller than the equilibrium scale length. This process is accompanied by the formation of a current density sublayer narrower than the skin depth. This sublayer keeps shrinking with time.Keywords
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