Relaxation towards localized vorticity states in drift plasma and geostrophic flows

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 5 1, 2004, Pages

  Agullo, Olivier ^a   Verga, Alberto ^b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTIONS; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTEGRODIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; TURBULENCE; VORTEX FLOW;

ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIAL; MAGNETIC FORCES; QUASIGEOSTROPHIC FLOW; THERMODYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM;

PLASMAS;

EID: 42749103005     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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