Nonlinear evolution of the lower-hybrid drift instability in a current sheet

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 10, 2004, Pages

  Daughton, William ^a   Lapenta, Giovanni ^a,b   Ricci, Paolo ^a,b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b INFM   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTROMAGNETISM; HEATING; KINETIC THEORY; MAGNETOSPHERE; PHASE SPACE METHODS; POISSON EQUATION;

HARRIS FIELDS; LOWER-HYBRID DRIFT INSTABILITY (LHDI); MAGNETIC RECONNECTIONS; MAXWELLIAN ION DISTRIBUTION;

PLASMA STABILITY;

EID: 19544375774     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.105004     Document Type: Article

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