Excitation of kinetic Alfvén turbulence by MHD waves and energization of space plasmas

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 11, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 535-543

  Voitenko, Yuriy ^a,b   Goossens, M ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR PLASMA ASTROPHYSICS   (Belgium)

^b NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF UKRAINE   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; PLASMA;

EID: 12744274819     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-11-535-2004     Document Type: Article

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