Recent Publications

  1. R. Jorge, P. Ricci and N. F. Loureiro, “A full-F Drift-Kinetic Analytical Model for SOL Plasma Dynamics at Arbitrary Collisionality”, J. Plasma Phys.83, 9055830606 (2017)
  2. S. Boldyrev and N. F. Loureiro,“Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence Mediated by Reconnection”, Astrophys. J.844, 125 (2017)
  3. N. F. Loureiro and S. Boldyrev, “Role of magnetic reconnection in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence”, 2016, Phys. Rev. Lett.118, 245101 (2017)
  4. J. D. Hare, L. Suttle, S. V. Lebedev, N. F. Loureiro, A. Ciardi, G. C. Burdiak, J. P. Chittenden, T. Clayson, C. Garcia, N. Niasse, T. Robinson, R. A. Smith, N. Stuart, F. Suzuki-Vidal, G. F. Swadling, J. Ma, J. Wu, Q. Yang, “Anomalous heating and plasmoid formation in a driven magnetic reconnection experiment”, Phys. Rev. Lett.118, 085001 (2017)
  5. D. A. Uzdensky and N. F. Loureiro, "Magnetic reconnection onset via disruption of a forming current sheet by the tearing instability", Phys. Rev. Lett.116, 105003(2016)
  6. K. M. Schoeffler, N. F. Loureiro, R. A. Fonseca and L. O. Silva, "Magnetic field generation and amplification in an expanding plasma", Phys. Rev. Lett.112, 175001 (2014)
  7. N. F. Loureiro, A. A. Schekochihin and A. Zocco, "Fast collisionless reconnection and electron heating in strongly magnetised plasmas", Phys. Rev. Lett111, 025002 (2013)
  8. R. Samtaney, N. F. Loureiro, D. A. Uzdensky, A. A. Schekochihin and S. C. Cowley, “Formation of plasmoid chains in magnetic reconnection”, Phys. Rev. Lett.103, 105004 (2009)
  9. N. F. Loureiro, A. A. Schekochihin and S. C. Cowley, “Instability of current sheets and formation of plasmoid chains”, Phys. Plasmas14, 100703 (2007)
  10. N. F. Loureiro, S. C. Cowley, W. D. Dorland, M. G. Haines and A. A. Schekochihin, “X-point collapse and saturation in the nonlinear tearing-mode reconnection”, Phys. Rev. Lett.95, 235003 (2005)