Sub-Alfvènic Spreading of 3D Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection and Application to Two-Ribbon Solar Flares

Milton Arencibia1, Paul Cassak1, Haoming Liang1, Eric R Priest2, Jiong Qiu3 and Dana W Longcope4, (1)West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States, (2)University of Saint Andrews, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Saint Andrews, United Kingdom, (3)Montana State University, Physics Department, Bozeman, MT, United States, (4)Montana State University Bozeman, Bozeman, MT, United States