Minimizing chaos during the reconnection process

Chaos, Solitons and Fractals

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1891-1900

  Corso, G ^a   Oda, G ^a   Caldas, I L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; TOKAMAK DEVICES;

WINDING NUMBER PROFILES;

CHAOS THEORY;

EID: 0031342906     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-0779(97)00075-1     Document Type: Article

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