On the tearing instability of highly elongated current sheets
Plasma Physics
2018-09-18 v1
Abstract
Rigorous theories of the tearing instability are mathematically quite involving. Therefore, the present note aims to demonstrate how their main results can be reproduced by a simple qualitative analysis of the respective magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations.
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@article{arxiv.1809.06154,
title = {On the tearing instability of highly elongated current sheets},
author = {Grigory Vekstein},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.06154},
year = {2018}
}