The scaling of forced collisionless reconnection

Physics of Plasmas

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

  Sullivan, Brian P ^a   Rogers, Barrett N ^a   Shay, M A ^b  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b The Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORCED MAGNETIC RECONNECTION; ION MOMENTUM EQUATION; TWO-FLUID SIMULATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; IONS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 29544438903     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2146910     Document Type: Article

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