Self-organization and energy relaxation in a three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic plasma

DOI10.1063/1.865862zbMath0593.76060OpenAlexW2056626896MaRDI QIDQ3723973

Tetsuya Sato, Ritoku Horiuchi

Publication date: 1986

Published in: The Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.865862

zbMATH Keywords

magnetic fieldinitial conditionmagnetohydrodynamic simulationrelaxation theoryinverse cascademagnetic bubbleaxially symmetric configurationdisappearance of the bubblesexcitation of nonhelical, small spatial scale structures of theexcitation of nonhelical, small spatial scale structures of the magnetic fieldglobal ideal unstable modeglobally conserved magnetic helicityhelically symmetric configurationincompressible dissipative plasmalow wavenumber regionmagnetic helicity densityMagnetic reconnectionrapid dissipation of the total magnetic energyreconnection pointsselective dissipationstable equilibrium with a minimum energythree-dimensional self-organization process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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