Plasma transport at the magnetospheric boundary due to reconnection in Kelvin-Helmholtz vortices
Nykyri, K. and A. Otto, Plasma transport at the magnetospheric boundary due to reconnection in Kelvin-Helmholtz vortices, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 3565-3568 (2001) (ADS)
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How Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities can roll up enough to mix plasmas, via
instances of magnetic reconnection.
This is for the magnetosphere, where velocity shear may be large, and
similar processes presumably may happen in coronal streamer
cusp regions.
Again this is a 2D representation of something really happening in 3D,
so one's simple 2D view of field lines neatly finding their unrequited
counterparts is a bit misleading..
How Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities can roll up enough to mix plasmas, via instances of magnetic reconnection. This is for the magnetosphere, where velocity shear may be large, and similar processes presumably may happen in coronal streamer cusp regions. Again this is a 2D representation of something really happening in 3D, so one's simple 2D view of field lines neatly finding their unrequited counterparts is a bit misleading..