Published January 2008
| Version v1
Journal article
On the magnetohydrodynamic load and the magnetohydrodynamic metage
Creators
- 1. S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Saltlake, Kolkata 700098 (India)
- 2. Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Inselstrasse 22, D-04103 Leipzig (Germany)
Description
In analogy with the load and the metage in hydrodynamics, this paper defines magnetohydrodynamic load and magnetohydrodynamic metage in the case of magnetofluids. They can be used to write the magnetic field in MHD in Clebsch's form. It has been shown herein how these two concepts can be utilized to derive the magnetic analog of the Ertel's theorem and also, how in the presence of nontrivial topology of the magnetic field in the magnetofluid one may associate the linking number of the magnetic field lines with the invariant MHD loads. The paper illustrates that the symmetry translation of the MHD metage in the corresponding label space generates the conservation of cross helicity
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1063/1.2836617;
- arXiv
- arXiv:0704.3482v1;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physics of Plasmas
- Journal Volume
- 15
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 012112-012112.7
- ISSN
- 1070-664X
- CODEN
- PHPAEN
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 39084195
- Subject category
- S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; S36: MATERIALS SCIENCE;
- Descriptors DEI
- FLUIDS; HELICITY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETISM; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; SYMMETRY; TOPOLOGY
- Descriptors DEC
- FLUID MECHANICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICS; MECHANICS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2008 American Institute of Physics