Particle simulation study of collisionless driven reconnection in a sheared magnetic field

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 277-289

  Horiuchi, Ritoku ^a   Sato, Tetsuya ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR FUSION SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRONS; ELECTROSTATICS; ENERGY CONVERSION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; IONS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

COLLISIONLESS DRIVEN RECONNECTION; ELECTRON DYNAMICS; ELECTRON INERTIA EFFECT; THERMALIZATION;

PLASMAS;

EID: 0031077603     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.872088     Document Type: Article

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