This process is incorrectly predicted to occur slowly on a timescale proportional to the square root of the Lundquist number in the Sweet-Parker model.
This process is incorrectly predicted to occur slowly on a timescale proportional to the square root of the Lundquist number in the Sweet-Parker model. This process occurs approximately every eight minutes in the Earth's magnetosphere, producing a portal through which solar wind enters in a flux transfer event. Kadomtsev proposed a cycle in which a tearing mode drives this process, producing sawtooth crashes in tokamaks. This process is preceded by the formation of a strong current sheet separating two regions threaded by anti-parallel fields, and it releases bursts of energy that are thought to generate auroras and solar flares. FTP, name this process of breaking and topologically rearranging magnetic field lines in a plasma.
This process is incorrectly predicted to occur slowly on a timescale proportional to the square root of the Lundquist number in the Sweet-Parker model.
{magnetic reconnection} (accept {flux transfer event} before it is mentioned)