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Elliptic and hyperelliptic magnetohydrodynamic equilibria

Plasma Physics 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

The present study is a continuation of a previous one on "hyperelliptic" axisymmetric equilibria started in [Tasso and Throumoulopoulos, Phys. Plasmas 5, 2378 (1998)]. Specifically, some equilibria with incompressible flow nonaligned with the magnetic field and restricted by appropriate side conditions like "isothermal" magnetic surfaces, "isodynamicity" or P + B^2/2 constant on magnetic surfaces are found to be reducible to elliptic integrals. The third class recovers recent equilibria found in [Schief, Phys. Plasmas 10, 2677 (2003)]. In contrast to field aligned flows, all solutions found here have nonzero toroidal magnetic field on and elliptic surfaces near the magnetic axis.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0404070,
  title  = {Elliptic and hyperelliptic magnetohydrodynamic equilibria},
  author = {H. Tasso and G. N. Throumoulopoulos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0404070},
  year   = {2009}
}

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