In this lecture, we discuss the problem of steady-state magnetic reconnection. We consider two adjacent flux systems of oppositely directed magnetic field, as in the sheet pinch of Lecture 32. They meet at x = 0, where B = 0. The walls at taken to be far away, i.e., L → ∞.
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Schnack, D.D. (2009). Steady Reconnection: The Sweet–Parker Problem. In: Lectures in Magnetohydrodynamics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 780. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00688-3_33
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