The roles of advection and diffusion in planar magnetic merging solutions

Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 88, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 165-185

  Watson, P G ^a   Priest, E R ^b   Craig, I J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Magnetic reconnection; MHD; Plasmas

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; MAGNETIC FIELD;

EID: 0032448769     PISSN: 03091929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03091929808245472     Document Type: Article

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