This note aims to clarify the correspondence between forced magnetic reconnection and Alfvén resonances in a plasma with a sheared magnetic field subjected to continuous external driving. It is shown how a transition from one regime to another occurs, and what implications this has on the magnetic energy dissipation rate.
REFERENCES
1.
2.
3.
D. Biskamp, Nonlinear Magnetohydrodynamics (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993), Chap. 6.
4.
5.
6.
7.
This content is only available via PDF.
© 2000 American Institute of Physics.
2000
American Institute of Physics
You do not currently have access to this content.
