Nonlinear saturation of mirror instability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Qu, Hongpeng ^a   Lin, Zhihong ^a   Chen, Liu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; PHASE SPACE METHODS;

GYROKINETIC PARTICLE SIMULATIONS; LINEAR GROWTH RATES; MARGINAL STABILITIES; MIRROR FORCES; NONLINEAR EVOLUTIONS; NONLINEAR SATURATIONS; OSCILLATION FREQUENCIES; PERTURBATION AMPLITUDES; TRAPPED PARTICLES;

MIRRORS;

AMPLITUDE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; NONLINEARITY; SIMULATION;

EID: 58049119532     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL033907     Document Type: Article

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