Kinetic theory and simulation of collisionless tearing in bifurcated current sheets

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Matsui, Tatsuki ^a   Daughton, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRON TEMPERATURE; GROWTH RATE;

BIFURCATED CURRENT SHEETS; PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATIONS; TEMPERATURE ANISOTROPY; VLASOV EQUILIBRIUM;

KINETIC THEORY;

EID: 38849168787     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2832679     Document Type: Article

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