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Tearing mode theory
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Magnetic Reconnection - Plasmoid Instability in an Experimentally Accessible Regime by Pallavi Bhat
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- 1 Magnetic reconnection: plasmid instability in an experimentally accessible regime
- 2 Outline
- 3 Introduction to magnetic reconnection - Sweet-Parker model 1956
- 4 Plasmid Instability
- 5 Plasmid Instability - multiple X-line reconnection
- 6 Tearing mode instability : spontaneous reconnection
- 7 Tearing mode theory
- 8 Tearing mode instability : nonlinear regime
- 9 Reconnection phase diagram
- 10 Reconnection phase diagram zoomed in
- 11 Semi-collisional regime
- 12 Plasmid instability scalings in semi-collisional regime
- 13 Plasmid instability in semi-collisional regime
- 14 Simulation Setup
- 15 Sequence of events in the simulation
- 16 Simulation : S = 2997, L/p3=76.7 Run G
- 17 Validation of semi-collisional regime
- 18 Do current sheets scale as Sweet-Parker?
- 19 Wavenumber scaling
- 20 Plasmids seen in experiments at low S?
- 21 Summary and future plans
