Sudden disruption of a thin current sheet in collisionless Hall magnetohydrodynamics due to secondary tearing and coalescence instabilities

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 3337-3340

  Ma, Z W ^a   Bhattacharjee, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMAS; TURBULENCE; MAGNETOPLASMA;

COLLISIONLESS HALL MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS;

GEOPHYSICS; COLLISIONLESS PLASMAS;

PLASMA;

BOUNDARY FLOWS; COLLISIONLESS; HALL MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETIC TURBULENCE; MAGNETOTAILS; SECONDARY ISLANDS; TEARING INSTABILITY; THIN CURRENT SHEET;

EID: 0033570670     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL003627     Document Type: Article

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