Collisionless magnetic reconnection in the presence of an external driving flow

Journal of Plasma Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 415-423

  Horiuchi, Ritoku ^a   Sato, Tetsuya ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR FUSION SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRONS; ENERGY CONVERSION; IONS; KINETIC THEORY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PLASMA COLLISION PROCESSES;

COLLISIONLESS MAGNETIC RECONNECTION; PARTICLE SIMULATION;

PLASMA SIMULATION;

EID: 0032599120     PISSN: 00223778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022377899007497     Document Type: Article

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