Plasmoid and Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities in Sweet-Parker current sheets

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

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Loureiro, N F ^a   Schekochihin, A A ^b   Uzdensky, D A ^c  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT SHEETS; EQUILIBRIUM PROFILES; EQUILIBRIUM SOLUTIONS; KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITIES; LINEAR THEORY; LINEARIZED EQUATIONS; LOCAL ANALYSIS; LOUREIRO; LUNDQUIST NUMBER; MAGNETIC PRANDTL NUMBERS; OUTFLOW VELOCITIES; PLASMA RESISTIVITY; PLASMOIDS; REDUCED MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; WAVE NUMBERS;

MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETOPLASMA;

STABILITY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PLASMA GAS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PLASMA GASES;

EID: 84872582309     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.87.013102     Document Type: Article

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