Exact solutions for reconnective magnetic annihilation

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 456, Issue 2000, 2000, Pages 1821-1849

  Priest, E R ^a,b   Tltov, V S ^a   Grundy, R E ^a   Hood, A W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Magnetohydrodynamics; Plasma; Reconnection

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746427035     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2000.0588     Document Type: Article

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