@techreport{oai:nifs-repository.repo.nii.ac.jp:00010199, author = {"Sato, T. and Horiuchi, R. and Watanabe, K. and Hayashi, T. and Kusano, K."}, month = {Sep}, note = {"In a resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) plasma, both the magnetic energy and the magnetic helicity dissipate with the resitive time scale. When sufficiently large free magnetic energy does exist, however, an idial current driven instability is excited whereby magnetic reconnection is driven at a converging point of induced plasma flows which does exist in a bounded compressible plasma. At a reconnection point excess free energy (entropy) is rapidly dissipated by ohmic heating and lost by radiation, while magnetic helicity is completely conserved. The magnetic topology is largely changed by reconnection and a new orderd structure with the same helicity is created. It is discussed that magnetic reconnection plays a key role in the MHD self-organization process."}, title = {Self-Organizing Magnetohydrodynamic Plasma}, year = {1990} }