Thermoelectric effects and magnetic field amplification in magnetogasdynamic turbulence
Abstract
It will be shown that thermoelectric effects amplify magnetic fields in compressible magnetogasdynamic turbulence (though not nearly as much as occurs across a curved reently bowshock). The importance of this result lies in the recognition that thermoelectric effects (in addition to kinetic effects) provide a real mechanism for the amplification of magnetic field strength (and total energy dissipation through ohmic losses) in a compressible, turbulent plasma.
- Publication:
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Space Manufacturing 8 - Energy and Materials from Space
- Pub Date:
- June 1991
- Bibcode:
- 1991aiaa.confT....S
- Keywords:
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- Magnetic Amplifiers;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence;
- Magnetoplasmadynamics;
- Thermoelectricity;
- Plasma Propulsion;
- Reentry Physics;
- Space Plasmas;
- Plasma Physics