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Storage and Release of Magnetic Energy in a Force-Free Field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

J.J. Aly
J.J. Aly*
Affiliation:
Service d'Astrophysique Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Saclay 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex France

Abstract

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For a 3D force-free field occupying a half-space D = {z > 0}, we discuss: i) the storage of free magnetic energy when the field evolves quasi-statically as a consequence of motions imposed to its footpoints on the plane {z = 0}; ii) the release of this energy during a reconnection process implying a rearrangement of the lines which is either local, occuring in the neighbourhood of spontaneously formed current sheets, or global, occuring in an explosive flare-like way.

Type
VII. Magnetic Reconnection and Coronal Evolution
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 142: Basic Plasma Processes on the Sun , 1990 , pp. 313 - 318
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

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