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A stable stationary solution of compressible magnetohydrodynamics associated with conservation of modified kinetic helicity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

Joseph Norwood
Joseph Norwood
Affiliation:
A.E. Labs Inc., P.O. Box 366, Welaka, Florida 32093, U.S.A.
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Abstract

It is shown that, in addition to magnetic helicity and cross-helicity, a modified form of kinetic helicity is also conserved in MHD fluids if the Hall effect is taken into account. The consequence of including this modified kinetic helicity as a conservation integral in a variation of the system energy is the emergence of an unconditionally MHD-stable solution that is realized in migma plasmas and may be expected to emerge as a self-organized configuration from an initially turbulent magnetofluid.

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Research Article
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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 41 , Issue 3 , June 1989 , pp. 561 - 571
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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