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Caption: Figure 10.
Illustration of analogy between sheared flow in incompressible fluid dynamics (FD) and magnetic reconnection in large-scale current layers. In the case of FD, the mechanism of energy transfer from macroscopic to dissipative (molecular) scales is known; it is the cascade of vortex tubes. The cascade of magnetic flux ropes/plasmoids can play this role in the case of magnetic dissipation.
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