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Table 1

Experiments investigating the impact of the imposed boundary driving velocity, Vd, and the plasma resistivity, η.

Name η Vda Peak Jb Peak Vc E||d

A1 1 × 10-2 0.100 8.0 0.75
A2 1 × 10-3 0.100 41.6 0.83 0.033
A3 1 × 10-4 0.100 140.0 0.93
B 1 × 10-3 0.075 38.4 0.73 0.026
C1 1 × 10-2 0.050 5.0 0.34 0.040
C2 5 × 10-3 0.050 9.2 0.42 0.034
C3 1 × 10-3 0.050 33.0 0.58 0.023
C4 5 × 10-4 0.050 52.0 0.68 0.019
C5 1 × 10-4 0.050 0.89 0.0058
C6 0 0.050
D 1 × 10-3 0.020 19.3 0.28 0.013
E 1 × 10-3 0.005 3.5 0.082 0.0037

Notes. 

(a)

Imposed boundary driving velocity.

(b)

Peak current value.

(c)

Peak outflow velocity.

(d)

Peak integrated parallel electric field.

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