Published November 1994 | Version v1
Journal article

Magnetic field integrability and the current closure condition

  • 1. Department of Physics, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849-5311 (United States)
  • 2. Department of Astrophysical, Planetary and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0391 (United States)

Description

Magnetic fields with translational symmetry, axisymmetry, and helical symmetry are integrable. That is, they have good flux surfaces. The current closure condition, that contour-integral dl/B is a flux surface quantity, also holds. It is possible to construct magnetic fields with broken symmetry, which have nearly integrable magnetic fields. It is shown that for nearly integrable nonsymmetric fields, the current closure condition need not hold

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics of Plasmas
Journal Volume
1
Journal Issue
11
Journal Page Range
p. 3713-3715.
ISSN
1070-664X
CODEN
PHPAEN