Nonlinear Reconnection in Magnetized Turbulence
ORAL
Abstract
Recent analytical works on strong magnetized plasma turbulence have hypothesized the existence of a range of scales where the tearing instability may govern the energy cascade. In this talk, we discuss the conditions under which such tearing may give rise to full nonlinear magnetic reconnection, thereby enabling significant energy conversion and dissipation. When those conditions are met, a new turbulence regime is accessed where reconnection-driven energy dissipation becomes the norm, rather than a sporadic event.
*NFL was partially funded by NSF CAREER award no. 1654168 and by the NSF-DOE Partnership in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering, award no. de-sc0016215. SB was partly supported by the NSF under grant no. NSF PHY-1707272, by NASA under grant no. NASA 80NSSC18K0646, and by DOE grant no. de-sc0018266.
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