Tearing instabilities in multiple current sheets for current-dependent resistivity models

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 4173-4175

  Birk, G T ^a   Konz, C ^a   Otto, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

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EID: 0041600408     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.872541     Document Type: Article

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