Solution-Adaptive Magnetohydrodynamics for Space Plasmas: Sun-to-Earth Simulations

Computing in Science and Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 14-35

  Gombosi, Tamas I ^a   Powell, Kenneth G ^a   De Zeeuw, Darren L ^a   Robert Clauer, C ^a   Hansen, Kenneth C ^a   Manchester, Ward B ^a   Ridley, Aaron J ^a   Roussev, Ilia I ^a   Sokolov, Igor V ^a   Stout, Quentin F ^a,c   Tóth, Gábor ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c Departmet of Electrical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL MODELS; SPACE PLASMAS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMAS; SPACE RESEARCH; SUN;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 12144287694     PISSN: 15219615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCISE.2004.1267603     Document Type: Article

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