Description
Magnetic null points are regions within a magnetic field where the field strength vanishes and are commonly associated with various forms of heating. A previous study of ours showed that there are interesting restrictions on the flow of heat at null points due to their magnetic geometry. This causes null points to take on strikingly different thermal structures that depend on the form of artificial heating. In this presentation we investigate the thermal structure that arises in a simple magnetic geometry, containing a null, that is energised in a natural way, by magnetic reconnection. We find that the typical structure that arises is in excellent agreement with our previous (much simpler) work and we discuss the implications of this result.
