Primary Recipient

WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION

Amount

$360,000.00

Award Date

7/26/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

This project addresses the theory of magnetic reconnection onset, focusing on the role of three-dimensional and diamagnetic effects in weakly collisional plasmas such as those in the solar corona and some fusion devices and laboratory experiments. The tw