Forced magnetic reconnection and the persistence of current sheets in static and rotating plasmas due to a sinusoidal boundary perturbation

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2427-2433

  Ma, Z W ^a   Wang, Xiaogang ^a   Bhattacharjee, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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EID: 0009522293     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.871927     Document Type: Article

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