Intermittency in MHD turbulence and coronal nanoflares modelling

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 245-255

  Veltri, P ^a   Nigro, G ^a   Malara, F ^a   Carbone, V ^a   Mangeney, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORONA; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 14944364529     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-12-245-2005     Document Type: Article

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