A note on the magnetic field topology in the vicinity of neutral points in the resistive MHD and collisionless plasma approximations; geometry of field-lines in the geomagnetic tail

DOI10.1007/BF00636545zbMath0601.76125OpenAlexW1992603468MaRDI QIDQ1081494

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Astrophysics and Space Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00636545

zbMATH Keywords

collisionless plasma two-dimensional models initial conditions 'sweeping' effect neutral line neighbourhood reconnection process resistive MHD continuum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05)

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