The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability: Finite Larmor radius magnetohydrodynamics

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 21, 1996, Pages 2907-2910

  Huba, J D ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTATION THEORY; MAGNETOPLASMA; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; PLASMA STABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PLASMAS; STABILITY;

ASYMMETRIC GROWTHS; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; FINITE LARMOR RADIUS; HYBRID SIMULATION; INHOMOGENEOUS PLASMA; KELVIN- HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITIES; LINEAR GROWTH RATE; NONLINEAR EVOLUTIONS;

MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS;

KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY; LARMOR RADIUS;

EID: 0030259721     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL02767     Document Type: Article

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