Influence of Coulomb collisions on the structure of reconnection layers

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Daughton, W ^a   Roytershteyn, V ^a   Albright, B J ^a   Karimabadi, H ^b   Yin, L ^a   Bowers, Kevin J ^a,c  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c D E SHAW RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISIONALITY; COULOMB COLLISION; CURRENT LAYERS; ELECTRON IONS; ELECTRON LAYERS; ELECTRON PRESSURE TENSOR; FOKKER PLANCK OPERATOR; ION INERTIAL LENGTH; KINETIC REGIME; KINETIC SIMULATION; LUNDQUIST NUMBER; MONTE CARLO; NEUTRAL SHEETS; NONIDEAL; OFF-DIAGONAL COMPONENTS; PLASMOIDS; RECONNECTION RATE; SECONDARY ISLANDS; THERMAL FORCES; TRANSPORT THEORY;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ION EXCHANGE; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 68249136899     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3191718     Document Type: Article

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