Nuno Loureiro
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
165 Papers
920 Citations
Nuno Loureiro is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Magnetic reconnection & Turbulence. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 147 publications. Previous affiliations of Nuno Loureiro include Technical University of Lisbon & Instituto Superior Técnico.
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Papers
Instability of current sheets and formation of plasmoid chains
TL;DR: In this article, current sheets formed in magnetic reconnection events are found to be unstable to high-wavenumber perturbations, and a chain of plasmoid secondary islands is formed, whose number scales as S3∕8.
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Fast Magnetic Reconnection in the Plasmoid-Dominated Regime
Dmitri A. Uzdensky,Dmitri A. Uzdensky,Nuno Loureiro,Nuno Loureiro,Alexander Schekochihin,Alexander Schekochihin +5 more
TL;DR: A conceptual model of resistive magnetic reconnection via a stochastic plasmoid chain is proposed, and the global reconnection rate is shown to be independent of the Lundquist number.
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Formation of Plasmoid Chains in Magnetic Reconnection
Ravi Samtaney,Nuno Loureiro,Dmitri A. Uzdensky,Alexander Schekochihin,Steven Cowley,Steven Cowley +5 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that high-Lundquist-number reconnection is inherently time-dependent and hence call for a substantial revision of the standard Sweet-Parker quasistationary picture for S>10(4).
Magnetic reconnection and stochastic plasmoid chains in high-Lundquist-number plasmas
TL;DR: A numerical study of magnetic reconnection in the large-Lundquist-number (S$), plasmoid-dominated regime is carried out for $S$ up to $10^7 in this article.
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Magnetic reconnection and stochastic plasmoid chains in high-Lundquist-number plasmas
TL;DR: In this paper, a numerical study of magnetic reconnection in the large-Lundquist-number (S), plasmoid-dominated regime is carried out for S up to 107.
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