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Modelling of a solar coronal loop
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 March 2009
Abstract
Montgomery and co-workers have developed a framework to describe the steady state of a turbulent magnetofluid, without the usual recourse to linearization. Thus the magnetic and velocity fields emerge in their fully nonlinear form as a consequence of the selective decays of the invariants of the system. Using this statistical theory of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, the pressure, magnetic and flow fields of a solar coronal loop have been determined. The spatial and time profiles of the loop pressure are derived. A comparison with the observed properties of the loops is made, whenever possible.
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- Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 56 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Honour of David Montgomery , December 1996 , pp. 427 - 440
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- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996
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