Three-dimensional spontaneous magnetic reconnection in neutral current sheets

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 108-121

  Schumacher, Jörg ^a   Kliem, Bernhard ^b   Seehafer, Norbert ^c  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b ASTROPHYSIKALISCHES INSTITUT POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

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EID: 0001653385     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.873786     Document Type: Article

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