English
Related papers

Related papers: Relaxed magnetohydrodynamics with cross-field flow

200 papers

The saturation of the tearing mode instability is described within the standard framework of reduced magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) in the case of an $r$-dependent or of a uniform resistivity profile. Using the technique of matched asymptotic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 N. Arcis , D. F. Escande , M. Ottaviani

The equilibrium of a resistive axisymmetric plasma with purely toroidal flow surrounded by a conductor is investigated within the framework of the nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic theory. It is proved that a) the poloidal current density…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 G. N. Throumoulopoulos

A new geometric approach to systems with boundary energy flow is developed using infinite-dimensional Dirac structures within the Lagrangian formalism. This framework satisfies a list of consistency criteria with the geometric setting of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-11 François Gay-Balmaz , Álvaro Rodríguez Abella , Hiroaki Yoshimura

The adiabatic limit of a recently proposed dynamical extension of Taylor relaxation, \emph{multi-region relaxed magnetohydrodynamics} (MRxMHD) is summarized, with special attention to the appropriate definition of relative magnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Robert L. Dewar , Stuart R. Hudson , Amitava Bhattacharjee , Zensho Yoshida

Being motivated by the paper [O. I. Bogoyavlenskij, Phys. Rev. 66, 056410 (2002)] we generalise the symmetry transformations for MHD equilibria with isotropic pressure and incompressible flow parallel to the magnetic field introduced…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 A. Evangelias , G. N. Throumoulopoulos

We carry out expansions of non-symmetric toroidal ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equilibria with nested flux surfaces about a periodic cylinder, in which physical quantities are periodic of period $2\pi$ in the cylindrical angle $\theta$…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Erin Jaquiery , Wrick Sengupta

This paper studies the nonlinear evolution of magnetic field turbulence in proximity of steady ideal MHD configurations characterized by a small electric current, a small plasma flow, and approximate flux surfaces, a physical setting that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Naoki Sato , Michio Yamada

Relaxations of localized over-density in a plane transverse to the magnetic field are numericallyinvestigated under the effect of drift-wave and interchange drives in SOL conditions. Such a controlleddeparture from thermodynamic equilibrium…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 R Varennes , G Dif-Pradalier , P Ghendrih , V Grandgirard , O Panico , Y Sarazin , E Serre , D Zarzoso

It is shown that the magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium states of an axisymmetric toroidal plasma with finite resistivity and flows parallel to the magnetic field are governed by a second-order partial differential equation for the poloidal…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 G. N. Throumoulopoulos , H. Tasso

Predicting the final state of turbulent plasma relaxation is an important challenge, both in astrophysical plasmas such as the Sun's corona and in controlled thermonuclear fusion. Recent numerical simulations of plasma relaxation with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-11 A. R. Yeates , A. J. B. Russell , G. Hornig

The fluid structure interaction of cylinders in tandem arrangement is used as validation basis of a multi-domain Lagrangian-Eulerian hybrid flow solver. In this hybrid combination, separate grids of limited width are defined around every…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-20 George Papadakis , Vasilis A. Riziotis , Spyros G. Voutsinas

In this paper, we analyse the phase space structure of the roaming dynamics in a two degree of freedom potential energy surface consisting of two identical planar Morse potentials separated by a distance. This potential energy surface was…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-03-24 Francisco Gonzalez Montoya , Stephen Wiggins

The new nonlinear axionically extended version of the general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics is formulated. The self-consistent formalism of this theory is based on the introduction into the Lagrangian of the new unified scalar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-26 Timur Yu. Alpin , Alexander B. Balakin , Alexei V. Vorohov

Systems with long-range interactions display a short-time relaxation towards Quasi-Stationary States (QSSs), whose lifetime increases with system size. With reference to the Hamiltonian Mean Field (HMF) model, we here review Lynden-Bell's…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-23 Pierre-Henri Chavanis , Giovanni De Ninno , Duccio Fanelli , Stefano Ruffo

We construct two classes of magnetohydrostatic (MHS) equilibria for an axisymmetric vertical flux tube spanning from the photosphere to the lower part of the transition region within a realistic stratified solar atmosphere subject to solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-07 Samrat Sen , A. Mangalam

A Lagrangian gravity-wave parameterization (MS-GWaM, Multi-Scale Gravity-Wave Model) that allows for fully transient wave-mean-flow interaction and horizontal propagation is applied to orographic gravity waves for the first time. Both…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-07 Felix Jochum , Ray Chew , François Lott , Georg S. Voelker , Jan Weinkaemmerer , Ulrich Achatz

This paper considers magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and some of its applications from the perspective of differential geometry, considering the dynamics of an ideal fluid flow and magnetic field on a general three-dimensional manifold, equipped…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-26 Andrew D. Gilbert , Jacques Vanneste

Bradyseism at Campi Flegrei is usually interpreted in terms of hydrothermal pressurization and magmatic degassing. Fluid flow, often treated as a passive response to pressure accumulation, is commonly modeled using simplified geometries and…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-04-17 Arturo Tozzi

We explore some consequences of the ``alpha model,'' also called the ``Lagrangian-averaged'' model, for two-dimensional incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. This model is an extension of the smoothing procedure in fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. D. Mininni , D. C. Montgomery , A. G. Pouquet

The paper considers the plane one-dimensional flows for magnetohydrodynamics in the mass Lagrangian coordinates. The inviscid, thermally non-conducting medium is modeled by a polytropic gas. The equations are examined for symmetries and…