Evolution of current sheets near a hyperbolic magnetic neutral point

DOI10.1063/1.865931zbMath0602.76121OpenAlexW2093418949MaRDI QIDQ3738822

Bhimsen K. Shivamoggi

Publication date: 1986

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.865931

zbMATH Keywords

exact solutionmagnetohydrodynamic equationsneutral pointdensity variationscurrent sheethyperbolic magnetic fieldmagnetic neutral pointincompressible plasma of finite conductivityinitial current densityinitial hyperbolic magnetic field configurationtime-dependent, two- dimensional flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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Cites Work

• Nonlinear theory of Taylor instability of superposed fluids for wavenumbers near the linear cut-off value

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