Magnetic reconnection

Karl Schindler; Gunnar Hornig

doi:10.1888/0333750888/2224

Magnetic reconnection

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Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental dynamical process in highly conductive plasmas. It can be regarded as the process that removes the following difficulty. On typical dynamical time scales a sufficiently hot spatially extended PLASMA behaves approximately as an ideal fluid in the sense that resistive effects are ignorable. As a consequence, the magnetic field is `frozen' to the plasma motion ...

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of astronomy and astrophysics
Editors	Paul Murdin
Place of Publication	Bristol ; London
Publisher	IOP Publishing Ltd.
Pages	1517-1524
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	0333750888
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1888/0333750888/2224
Publication status	Published - 2001

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