Inertial magnetohydrodynamics
Plasma Physics
2015-04-01 v1
Abstract
A version of extended magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) that incorporates electron inertia is obtained by constructing an action principle. Unlike MHD which freezes in magnetic flux, the present theory freezes in an alternative flux related to the electron canonical momentum. The associated Hamiltonian formulation is derived and reduced models that have previously been used to describe collisionless reconnection are obtained.
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@article{arxiv.1410.8152,
title = {Inertial magnetohydrodynamics},
author = {M. Lingam and P. J. Morrison and E. Tassi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.8152},
year = {2015}
}
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8 pages