Fast magnetic reconnection in a kinked current sheet

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Fujimoto, Keizo ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENTS; CURRENT SHEETS; DIFFUSION REGIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PARTICLES; ELECTRON DIFFUSIONS; ELECTRON DYNAMICS; ELECTRON INERTIAS; ELECTRON THERMALIZATION; KINK MODES; LARGE SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC DISSIPATIONS; MAGNETIC RECONNECTIONS; MASS RATIOS; PARTICLE SPLITTING; RECONNECTION RATES; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS;

ASTROPHYSICS; COALESCENCE; ELECTRIC FIELDS; GEOPHYSICS; IONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 65449161774     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3106685     Document Type: Article

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