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tearing mode instability: a standalone construct

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Plasma physics

a resistive instability in which a current sheet breaks into magnetic islands through reconnection.

In plasma physics, tearing mode instability refers to a resistive instability in which a current sheet breaks into magnetic islands through reconnection. This meaning comes from Furth (1963) in The Physics of Fluids.[1]

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References

Furth, H. P., Killeen, J., & Rosenbluth, M. N. (1963). Finite-Resistivity Instabilities of a Sheet Pinch. The Physics of Fluids, 6(4), 459-484. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1706761

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