REMOVING THE PRESSURE LIMITATIONS ON FLUX PILE-UP RECONNECTION

Authors
JARDINE M ALLEN HR
Citation
M. Jardine et Hr. Allen, REMOVING THE PRESSURE LIMITATIONS ON FLUX PILE-UP RECONNECTION, Solar physics, 177(1-2), 1998, pp. 411-414
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal title
Solar physics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00380938
Volume
177
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
411 - 414
Database
ISI
SICI code
0038-0938(1998)177:1-2<411:RTPLOF>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
In a recent Letter, Litvinenko, Forbes, and Priest (1996) claimed that the rate of the very fast flux-pile rip reconnection is severely limi ted by the effects of plasma pressure. They considered however only tw o-dimensional, zero-vorticity flows. Here we show that this limitation is a feature of these restrictive assumptions and can be removed by r elaxing either of them.