Fully kinetic simulations of undriven magnetic reconnection with open boundary conditions

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Daughton, William ^a   Scudder, Jack ^a   Karimabadi, Homa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON DIFFUSION; KINETIC SIMULATIONS; MAGNETIC RECONNECTION; OPEN BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIFFUSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ELECTRONS; MAGNETIC FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

EID: 33746785912     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2218817     Document Type: Article

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