Collisionless tearing instability of a bi-Maxwellian neutral sheet with exact particle orbits. Interim report
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:5840977
The tearing instability of a neutral sheet may be important to reconnection in the magnetosphere and elsewhere. The use of a bi-Maxwellian Harris equilibrium is broadly applicable to the physical environment and allows a continuous variation from isotropic situations. The integro-differential equation describing the linear tearing instability in the bi-Maxwellian neutral sheet is solved without approximating the particle orbits. Results of this calculation are presented. Comparison between the exact solution and the 3-region approximation motivates the piecewise-straight-line approximation, a simplification which allows faster solution of the integro-differential equation, yet retains the important features of the exact solution.
- Research Organization:
- Naval Research Lab., Washington, DC (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 5840977
- Report Number(s):
- AD-A-207310/4/XAB; NRL-MR-6405
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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