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Special issue: Collisions in collisionless plasmas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 July 2014

F. Valentini*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá della Calabria, 87036 Rende (CS), Italy
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Email address for correspondence: [email protected]
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The special issue ‘Collisions in collisionless plasmas’ is intended to provide a collection of relevant contributions from different scientific fields in plasma physics, including experiments, theory, and numerical modeling, focused on the role of collisions on the dynamical evolution of weakly collisional plasma systems.

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