MHD aspects of fire-hose type instabilities

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 108, Issue A12, 2003, Pages

  Wang, B J ^a   Hau, L N ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fire hose; MHD instability; Nonlinear; Pressure anisotropy

Indexed keywords

EID: 12844251145     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JA009986     Document Type: Article

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