Decay of MHD-scale Kelvin-Helmholtz vortices mediated by parasitic electron dynamics

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 14, 2004, Pages

  Nakamura, T K M ^a   Hayashi, D ^a   Fujimoto, M ^a   Shinohara, I ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELECTRONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VORTEX FLOW;

HYDRODYNAMIC INSTABILITY; KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ (KH) VORTICES; PARASITIC ELECTRON DYNAMICS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL TWO-FLUID SYSTEM;

MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 2542484908     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.145001     Document Type: Article

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