The α dynamo effects in laboratory plasmas

Magnetohydrodynamics

Volumn 38, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 191-210

  Ji, H ^a   Prager, S C ^b  

^a PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin ^*  (United States)

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EID: 4143059064     PISSN: 0024998X     EISSN: 15740579     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22364/mhd.38.1-2.15     Document Type: Article

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