A stable stationary solution of compressible magnetohydrodynamics associated with conservation of modified kinetic helicity
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.
- Publication:
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Journal of Plasma Physics
- Pub Date:
- June 1989
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S0022377800014082
- Bibcode:
- 1989JPlPh..41..561N