Magnetic field generation during the collision of narrow plasma clouds

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1793-1796

  Sakai, Jun Ichi ^a   Kazimura, Yoshihiro ^a   Haruki, Takayuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cloud collsions; Coalescence of magnetic islands; Counter streamings instability; Magnetic field generation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033465108     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.68.1793     Document Type: Article

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