Unsteady equipartition MHD solutions
Creators
- 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
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1063/1.1629137;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Journal Volume
- 45
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 381-390
- ISSN
- 0022-2488
- CODEN
- JMAPAQ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 36002232
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
- Descriptors DEI
- BOUNDARY-VALUE PROBLEMS; CYLINDRICAL CONFIGURATION; EXACT SOLUTIONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; PLASMA; PLASMA PRESSURE; RELAXATION; STRONG INTERACTIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- BASIC INTERACTIONS; CONFIGURATION; FLUID MECHANICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTERACTIONS; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; MECHANICS
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2004 American Institute of Physics.