Electron quasi-viscous effects in collisionless slow-mode shocks

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2004, Pages

  Yin, L ^a   Winske, D ^a   Daughton, W ^a   Coroniti, F V ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRONS; FLUID DYNAMICS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

ELECTRON TEMPERATURE; FLUID ELECTRONS; KINETIC IONS;

SHOCK WAVES;

IONOSPHERE;

EID: 3543136601     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL019567     Document Type: Article

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