Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-17-2003

Publication Title

Physical Review Letters

Department

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Abstract

The growth of magnetic islands is explored using the magnetohydrodynamic model in a simple slab system in which the value of the tearing mode stability parameter Δ′ can be varied continuously. Unless the system is close to marginal stability reconnection is controlled by Sweet-Parker current layers, whose formation is a consequence of the inherent singular structure of magnetic island equilibria.

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.125002

Original Citation

Jemella BD, Shay MA, Drake JF, Rogers BN. Impact of frustrated singularities on magnetic island evolution. Phys Rev Lett. 2003 Sep 19;91(12):125002. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.125002. Epub 2003 Sep 17. PMID: 14525367.

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