Magnetic reconnection driven by the coalescence instability

DOI10.1063/1.864070zbMath0521.76117OpenAlexW1975803568MaRDI QIDQ3670841

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Publication date: 1983

Published in: The Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.864070

zbMATH Keywords

compressibilitymagnetic reconnectioncoalescence instabilitytoroidal fieldattractive force between neighboring islandssteady-state models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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