Compression of the current sheet and its impact into the reconnection rate
Astrophysics
2007-11-14 v3
Abstract
Numerical simulations of strongly compressible MHD corresponding to a stellar atmosphere with substantial gravity and near force-free magnetic fields show that the current sheet collapses (its width decreasing substantially). As a result, the reconnection rate increases dramatically.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.0711.1666,
title = {Compression of the current sheet and its impact into the reconnection rate},
author = {S. I. Vainshtein and Z. Mikić and R. Sagdeev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.1666},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
24 pages 10 figures, typos corrected