Transient reconnection caused by the impact and switch-off of a transverse shear flow

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 2393-2400

  Chen, T ^a   Liu, Z X ^a   Zhang, X X ^a  

^a CENTER FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND APPLIED RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; SHEAR FLOW;

PLASMA BOUNDARY LAYERS; TRANSIENT RECONNECTION; TRANSVERSE SHEAR FLOW;

PLASMA FLOW;

EID: 0032607652     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.873510     Document Type: Article

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