Plasma heating by forced magnetic reconnection
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Plasma heating by forced magnetic reconnection
zbMATH Open document ID: 0974.76098
DOI: 10.1023/A:1002444629377
author: Rekha Jain
author: Grigory E. Vekstein
published in: Astrophysics and Space Science
publication date: 2001-12-12T00:00:00Z
review text: A model of forced magnetic reconnection in a force-free magnetic field is considered for the magnetic energy release during current sheet reconnection. The authors find that the magnetic energy release becomes very large for the field near the marginal tearing stability. The persistent plasma heating provided by ongoing external driving and internal reconnetion is examined, and a typical relaxation-type dependence on driving frequency is obtained. The authors demonstrate that the dissipation becomes most efficient when time-scales of driving and reconnection are comparable. Implications of the results for solar coronal heating are discussed.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 76X05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 85A30
zbMATH DE Number: 1488583
zbMATH Keywords: forced magnetic reconnection
zbMATH Keywords: force-free magnetic field
zbMATH Keywords: magnetic energy release
zbMATH Keywords: marginal tearing stability
zbMATH Keywords: plasma heating
zbMATH Keywords: external driving
zbMATH Keywords: solar coronal heating
reviewed by: Iván Abonyi
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: a:1002444629377
OpenAlex ID: W1826551567
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1488583