Analytical description for field-line wandering in strong magnetic turbulence

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

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Shalchi, A ^a,b   Le Roux, J A ^a   Webb, G M ^a   Zank, G P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL DESCRIPTION; ANALYTICAL METHOD; ANALYTICAL TREATMENT; FIELD LINES; MAGNETIC FIELD LINE; MAGNETIC TURBULENCE; MEAN FIELD; RANDOM WALK; STANDARD THEORIES; STOCHASTIC PROPERTIES; TURBULENT MAGNETIC FIELDS;

TURBULENCE;

MAGNETIC FIELDS;

EID: 75349094074     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.066408     Document Type: Article

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