Limitations of Hall MHD as a model for turbulence in weakly collisional plasmas

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 219-232

  Howes, G G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MODELING; PLASMA; SOLAR WIND; TURBULENCE;

EID: 77949433695     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-16-219-2009     Document Type: Article

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