Full particle simulation of a perpendicular collisionless shock: A shock-rest-frame model

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2006, Pages

  Umeda, Takayuki ^a   Yamazaki, Ryo ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Collisionless shock; Particle in cell simulation; Shock rest frame

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE; KINETICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICLE MOTION; SIMULATION;

EID: 33947516222     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/bf03352617     Document Type: Article

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