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🧲 Magnetic Reconnection - 2D Sweet-Parker Current Sheet and Plasmoid Regime

2D companion of the magnetic reconnection simulation: Sweet-Parker current sheet from plasma parameters (B, density, temperature, length), X-point field lines, inflow and jets, plasmoid regime for large Lundquist number, with numerical checks.

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2D companion of the magnetic reconnection simulation: Sweet-Parker current sheet from plasma parameters (B, density, temperature, length), X-point field lines, inflow and jets, plasmoid regime for large Lundquist number, with numerical checks.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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