Reconnection Phenomena during the Formation Phase of Field-Reversal Experiments
- 8 June 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 46 (23), 1519-1522
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.46.1519
Abstract
The results of hybrid simulations of the formation and the evolution to equilibrium of field-reversal experiment (FRX) configurations are presented. The observed rapid reconnection is explained in terms of forced reconnection driven by a Kruskal-Schwarzschild instability and the self-consistent production of toroidal magnetic field.Keywords
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