Two-fluid regimes of the resistive and collisionless tearing instability

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Hosseinpour, M ^a   Bian, N ^b   Vekstein, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLARIFICATION; GALVANOMAGNETIC EFFECTS; HALL EFFECT; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; PLASMAS;

COLLISIONLESS; ELECTRON INERTIAS; GYROVISCOSITY; LUNDQUIST NUMBERS; MAGNETIC CONFIGURATIONS; MAGNETIC RECONNECTIONS; MASS RATIOS; NON-DIMENSIONAL PARAMETERS; PLASMA DESCRIPTIONS; SKIN DEPTHS; TEARING INSTABILITIES; TWO FLUIDS;

PLASMA STABILITY;

EID: 59349104377     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3068470     Document Type: Article

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