Fast magnetic reconnection and sudden enhancement of current sheets due to inward boundary flows

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 2129-2134

  Wang, Xiaogang ^a   ma, Z W ^a   Bhattacharjee, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

EARTH MAGNETOSPHERE; MAGNETIC FIELD CONFIGURATIONS; MAGNETIC RECONNECTION; MAGNETIC STORMS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETOTAIL; PLASMA SIMULATION; SOLAR FLARES

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891221664     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: 10897674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.871665     Document Type: Article

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