Magnetorotational instability: Recent developments

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1916, 2010, Pages 1607-1633

  Julien, Keith ^a   Knobloch, Edgar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion discs; Fluid dynamics; Magnetorotational instability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS;

ACCRETION DISCS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MAGNETOROTATIONAL INSTABILITY; NONLINEAR PROCESS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; THEORETICAL APPROACH;

STABILITY;

EID: 77950958010     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2009.0251     Document Type: Review

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