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Spheromak Tilting Instability and Magnetic Reconnection: Simulation and Experiment

Takaya Hayashi, Tetsuya Sato, F. J. Wysocki, David D. Meyerhofer, Masaaki Yamada

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A comparison is made of the tilting instability and resulting nonlinear reconnection between a three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (3D MUD) simulation and the proto S-1/C spheromak experiment. A good agreement is obtained. The observed fast reconnection process is found to be explained by the driven reconnection theory.

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Key concepts: Spheromak, Magnetic reconnection, Physics, Magnetohydrodynamic drive, Instability, Mechanics, Magnetohydrodynamics, Nonlinear system