Magnetotail field topology in a three-dimensional global particle simulation

Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

Volumn 48, Issue 12 B, 2006, Pages

  Cai, Dongsheng ^a   Nishikawa, Ken Ichi ^b   Lembege, Bertrand ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^c LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC CURVE; CRITICAL POINTS; EIGENVALUES; EIGENVECTORS; INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS; JACOBIANS; MAGNETIC FIELD TOPOLOGY; MAGNETIC NULL POINTS; MAGNETIC RECONNECTIONS; MAGNETOTAILS; MATRIX EIGENVALUES; PARTICLE SIMULATIONS; REAL PART; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

ASTROPHYSICS; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GEOPHYSICS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOPOLOGY;

JACOBIAN MATRICES;

EID: 34548422797     PISSN: 07413335     EISSN: 13616587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0741-3335/48/12B/S13     Document Type: Article

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