Published January 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Unsteady equipartition MHD solutions

  • 1. Department of Mathematics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6 (Canada)

Description

The unsteady equipartition solutions are introduced that describe a plasma relaxation in regime of a strong interaction between the plasma velocity V and the magnetic field B and depend on all four variables t,x,y,z. The solutions exist when the kinematic viscosity ν is equal to the magnetic diffusivity η and V=±B/√(ρμ). The exact equipartition solutions to the boundary value problem with the ''no-slip'' boundary condition are derived. The solutions depend on infinitely many parameters and describe the plasma relaxation in a ball with a constant pressure at the boundary. The translationally invariant exact solutions are obtained for ν≠η for which plasma is confined in cylindrical domains by the magnetic field B only while the plasma pressure P is zero at the boundary and is positive inside the domains

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Journal Title
Journal of Mathematical Physics
Journal Volume
45
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 381-390
ISSN
0022-2488
CODEN
JMAPAQ

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(c) 2004 American Institute of Physics.