Accession Number:

ADA137623

Title:

Fast Collisionless Tearing in an Anisotropic Neutral Sheet.

Descriptive Note:

Memorandum rept.,

Corporate Author:

NAVAL RESEARCH LAB WASHINGTON DC

Personal Author(s):

• Chen,J.
• Palmadesso,P. J.
• Fedder,J. A.
• Lyon,J. G.

Report Date:

1984-02-06

Pagination or Media Count:

20.0

Abstract:

This document studies the collisionless tearing mode in a neutral sheet in the presence of ion temperature anisotorpy using Vlasov description for both ions and electrons.

Descriptors:

• *Anisotropy
• *Plasmas(Physics)
• *Computations
• *Dispersion relations
• Magnetosphere
• Equations
• Magnetic fields
• Perturbations
• Ions
• Electrons
• Isotropism

Subject Categories:

• Numerical Mathematics
• Plasma Physics and Magnetohydrodynamics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE