Meanings
plural gyrotropizations
- Conversion to gyrotropic motion
Gyrotropization occurs at scales substantially larger than the shock width. Isotropization is much slower than gyrotropization and occurs at even significantly larger scales.
2017, M. Gedalin, “Rankine‐Hugoniot Relations in Multispecies Plasma With Gyrotropic Anisotropic Downstream Ion Distributions”, in Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics1 more example
In this paper, we demonstrate that this singularity can be completely removed away by the combination of direct use of the 2nd-moment of the Vlasov equation and an ingenious gyrotropization model.
2016, Kota Hirabayashi, Masahiro Hoshino, Takanobu Amano, “A new framework for magnetohydrodynamic simulations with anisotropic pressure”, in arXiv
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