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Reconnection at three dimensional magnetic null points: Effect of current sheet asymmetry (2013)
Journal Article
Wyper, P., & Jain, R. (2013). Reconnection at three dimensional magnetic null points: Effect of current sheet asymmetry. Physics of Plasmas, 20(5), Article 052901. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4804338

Asymmetric current sheets are likely to be prevalent in both astrophysical and laboratory plasmas with complex three dimensional (3D) magnetic topologies. This work presents kinematic analytical models for spine and fan reconnection at a radially sym... Read More about Reconnection at three dimensional magnetic null points: Effect of current sheet asymmetry.

Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in a current-vortex sheet at a 3D magnetic null (2013)
Journal Article
Wyper, P., & Pontin, D. (2013). Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in a current-vortex sheet at a 3D magnetic null. Physics of Plasmas, 20(3), Article 032117. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4798516

We report here, for the first time, an observed instability of a Kelvin-Helmholtz nature occurring in a fully three-dimensional (3D) current-vortex sheet at the fan plane of a 3D magnetic null point. The current-vortex layer forms self-consistently i... Read More about Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in a current-vortex sheet at a 3D magnetic null.