Effects of hall electric fields on the saturation of forced antiparallel magnetic field merging

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 3309-3314

  Dorelli, John C ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HALL EFFECT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FLUX; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; PLASMAS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

MAGNETIC ENERGY;

ELECTRIC FIELDS;

EID: 0042978528     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1589007     Document Type: Article

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