Incomplete relaxation of pinch discharges
- 1 May 1981
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 24 (5) , 893-898
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.863459
Abstract
Solenoidal field linkage is explained and its application to magnetic helicity is discussed. A Green’s tensor function for the magnetic vector potential of a plasma current distribution bounded by a perfect conductor is derived. A hypothesis of incomplete relaxation of a turbulent discharge is then used to establish reversed-field pinch configurations with finite beta.Keywords
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