Nonlinear Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection

Journal Article · Wed Oct 15 00:00:00 EDT 2008 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3013770· OSTI ID:21251518

Grasso, D; Tassi, E ^[1]; Borgogno, D ^[2]; Pegoraro, F ^[3]

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1. Burning Plasma Research Group, Politecnico di Torino (Italy)
2. Universite de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, OCA, Nice (France)
3. Phys. Dept. Pisa University, Pisa, CNISM (Italy)

We review some recent results that have been obtained in the investigation of collisionless reconnection in two and three dimensional magnetic configurations with a strong guide field in regimes of interest for laboratory plasmas. First, we adopt a two-field plasma model where two distinct regimes, laminar and turbulent, can be identified. Then, we show that these regimes may combine when we consider a more general four-field model, where perturbation of the magnetic and velocity fields are allowed also along the ignorable coordinate.

• OSTI ID: 21251518
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1061, Issue 1; Conference: 2008 ICTP international workshop on the frontiers of modern plasma physics, Trieste (Italy), 14-25 Jul 2008; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3013770; (c) 2008 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
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PLASMA
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