Fractal analysis of the solar wind flow in the inner heliosphere

Chaos, Solitons and Fractals

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1601-1607

  Macek, Wiesław M ^a   Obojska, Lidia ^a  

^a Department of Earth Observation   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CORRELATION METHODS; FRACTALS; LYAPUNOV METHODS; PLASMA FLOW; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

HELIOSPHERE; LYAPUNOV EXPONENTS; SOLAR WIND;

CHAOS THEORY;

CHAOS; FRACTAL; SPACECRAFT; WIND;

EID: 0031253342     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-0779(97)00041-6     Document Type: Article

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