Current singularities: Drivers of impulsive reconnection

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1-11

  Bhattacharjee, A ^a   Germaschewski, K ^a   Ng, C S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON INERTIA; FAST RECONNECTION; NONLINEAR REGIME; SCALING PROPERTIES;

ASPECT RATIO; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRONS; GRADIENT METHODS; HALL EFFECT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; PLASMA COLLISION PROCESSES;

MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 20844456272     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1872893     Document Type: Article

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