Abstract

A large 3D data set has been assembled using the relaxation scaling experiment (RSX) device to study the dynamics of flux ropes. In a series of single flux rope experiments, we have measured induced eddy currents inside the plasma that complicate the evolution of a nominally simple current system. It is also likely that the nominal MHD force balance is violated on ion inertial length scales. These phenomena appear irreducibly three dimensional.

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