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Title: | Fast Magnetic Reconnection Mediated by Plasmoid Instability |
Authors: | Dang, Phillip |
Advisors: | Bhattacharjee, Amitava |
Department: | Physics |
Class Year: | 2018 |
Abstract: | Magnetic reconnection is generally believed to be the underlying mech- anism that powers explosive events in plasmas such as flares and substorms in the solar corona and sawtooth crashes in fusion plasmas. Firstly, this paper provides a fundamental description of the magnetic reconnection process by deriving the Sweet-Parker model. The original time-independent Sweet-Parker model assumes steady-state reconnection and neglects compressbility and plasma beta effects. In this paper, these effects will also be included and discussed using numerically sim- ulated data. Next, this paper discusses the nonlinear regime of plasmoid instability and shows that as a result of this instability, the system can realize a fast nonlinear reconnection rate. |
URI: | http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp014q77fv094 |
Type of Material: | Princeton University Senior Theses |
Language: | en |
Appears in Collections: | Physics, 1936-2024 |
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