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View SchemaRelaxed States of a Magnetized Plasma with Minimum Dissipation
| Authors | B. Dasgupta, P. Dasgupta, M. S. Janaki, T. Watanabe, T. Sato |
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| ArXiv ID | physics/9805017 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9805017 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.3144 |
Abstract
Relaxed States of a slightly resistive and turbulent magnetized plasma is obtained by invoking the principle of minimum dissipation which leads to curl curl curl B = \lambda B . A solution of the above equation is accomplished using the analytic continuation of the Chandrasekhar-Kendall eigenfunctions in the complex domain. The new features of this theory is to show (i) a single fluid can relax to an MHD equilibrium which can support pressure gradient even without a flow, (ii) field reversal (RFP) in states that are not force free.
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