A Study of Two Novel Self-Exciting Single-Disk Homopolar Dynamos: Theory

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

Volumn 452, Issue 1949, 1996, Pages 1369-1395

  Hide, Raymond ^a,c   Skeldon, Anne C ^b   Acheson, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33746750100     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.1996.0070     Document Type: Article

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