Published October 2013
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Journal article
Force-free Jacobian equilibria for Vlasov-Maxwell plasmas
Creators
- 1. Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130 (United States)
Description
New analytic force-free Vlasov-Maxwell equilibria for thin current sheets are presented. The magnetic flux densities are expressed in terms of Jacobian elliptic functions of one Cartesian spatial coordinate. The magnetic flux densities reduce to previously reported hyperbolic functions in one limit and sinusoidal functions in another limit of the modulus k. A much wider class of nonlinear force-free Vlasov-Maxwell equilibria open expanded possibilities for modeling of solar system, astrophysical and laboratory plasmas. Modified Maxwellian distribution functions are determined explicitly in terms of Jacobian elliptic functions. Conditions for double peaked distribution functions that could be unstable are developed
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1063/1.4826502;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physics of Plasmas
- Journal Volume
- 20
- Journal Issue
- 10
- Journal Page Range
- p. 102117-102117.10
- ISSN
- 1070-664X
- CODEN
- PHPAEN
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 45039475
- Subject category
- S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
- Descriptors DEI
- ASTROPHYSICS; BOLTZMANN-VLASOV EQUATION; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; EQUILIBRIUM; FLUX DENSITY; MAGNETIC FLUX; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR PROBLEMS; PLASMA; PLASMA SHEET; PLASMA SIMULATION; SOLAR SYSTEM
- Descriptors DEC
- DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; EARTH MAGNETOSPHERE; EQUATIONS; FLUID MECHANICS; FUNCTIONS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MECHANICS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PHYSICS; SIMULATION
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- Notes
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