SOME REMARKS ON 2-DIMENSIONAL INCOMPRESSIBLE STATIONARY RECONNECTION

An alternative formulation of the problem of two-dimensional incompres sible stationary resistive flows is presented. This formulation is use d to (a) investigate the conditions under which a recently established anti-reconnection theorem may be overcome for stationary resistive fl ows with vanishing viscosity and (b) to rederive a reconnective annihi lation solution and discuss its properties in the light of the anti-re connection theorem. (C) 1996 American Institute of Physics.