INTERMITTENT ENERGY BURSTS AND RECURRENT TOPOLOGICAL CHANGE OF A TWISTING MAGNETIC-FLUX TUBE

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作者
AMO, H [1 ]
SATO, T [1 ]
KAGEYAMA, A [1 ]
WATANABE, K [1 ]
HORIUCHI, R [1 ]
HAYASHI, T [1 ]
TODO, Y [1 ]
WATANABE, TH [1 ]
TAKAMARU, H [1 ]
机构
[1] NATL INST FUS SCI, CTR THEORY & COMP SIMULAT, NAGOYA, AICHI 46401, JAPAN
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10.1103/PhysRevE.51.R3838
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O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];
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070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;
摘要
When continuously twisted, a magnetic flux tube suffers a knot-of-tension instability, like a twisted bundle of rubber bands, and undergoes rapid reconnection with untwisted field lines at the twist-untwist boundary, whereby a giant burstlike energy release takes place. Subsequently, bursts occur intermittently and reconnection advances deeper into the untwisted region. Then the twisted flux tubes, which are reconnected with untwisted field lines, now reconnect with one another to return to the original axisymmetric tube. The process is thus repeatable. © 1995 The American Physical Society.
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页码:R3838 / R3841
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