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Storage and Release of Magnetic Energy in a Force-Free Field
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 July 2016
Abstract
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
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- Copyright © Kluwer 1990