Fast impulsive reconnection and current sheet intensification due to electron pressure gradients in semi-collisional plasmas

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 1673-1676

  Ma, Z W ^a   Bhattacharjee, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; GEOMETRY; PLASMA COLLISION PROCESSES; PLASMA FLOW; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS;

CURRENT SHEET INTENSIFICATION; ELECTRON PRESSURE; ION SKIN DEPTH; LUNDQUIST NUMBER; RECONNECTION;

GEOMAGNETISM; COLLISIONAL PLASMAS;

BOUNDARY FLOWS; ELECTRON PRESSURES; FAST RECONNECTION; LUNDQUIST NUMBER; NON-LINEAR REGIMES; PARALLEL CURRENTS; PARALLEL ELECTRIC FIELDS; X-POINT GEOMETRY;

EID: 0030166567     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL01600     Document Type: Article

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