• Two-dimensional reconnection.


• Reconnection in a locally 3D B-field (B is 2D outside the diffusion region).
• The same animation, but with a closed magnetic configuration.


• 3D reconnection in the absence of a null point - in the magnetic field (y,kx,b0) (Priest, Hornig and Pontin, 2003; Hornig and Priest, 2003).
• The effect of such reconnection on a closed magnetic configuration


• Kinematic reconnection at a 3D null point with spine-aligned current (Pontin, Hornig and Priest, 2004a)


• Kinematic reconnection at a 3D null point with fan-aligned current (Pontin, Hornig and Priest, 2004b):
• Constant current; spine- and fan-crossing flows.
• Current zero in fan; spine-crossing flow only.
• Current zero on spine; fan-crossing flow only.

• cartoon of fieldline non-conservation due to a localised non-ideal region
  
• cartoon of flux conservation with fieldline slippage
  
• cartoon demonstrating the non-equivalence of fieldline- and flux-conservation
  

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