The MHD Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. II. The roles of weak and oblique fields in planar flows

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 482, Issue 1 PART I, 1997, Pages 230-244

  Jones, T W ^a,b   Gaalaas, Joseph B ^a,b   Ryu, Dongsu ^c,d   Frank, Adam ^a,e  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Instabilities; MHD; Plasmas; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040821649     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/304145     Document Type: Article

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