Vlasov simulation of Langmuir wave packets

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 671-679

  Umeda, T ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON; ION; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PLASMA;

EID: 35649025391     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-14-671-2007     Document Type: Article

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