Weakly nonlinear model for oscillatory instability in Saturn's dense rings

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Schmidt, Jürgen ^a   Salo, Heikki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGED PARTICLES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITATION; GROUND STATE; HYDRODYNAMICS; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; OSCILLATIONS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SPACE RESEARCH; STABILITY;

OSCILLATORY INSTABILITY; OSCILLATORY STATE; SATURN DENSE RINGS; WEAKLY NONLINEAR MODEL;

PLANETS;

EID: 0037435848     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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