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On the resistive diffusion of force-free magnetic fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

B. C. Low
B. C. Low
Affiliation:
Lau Kuei Huat (S) Private Limited, 55 Shipyard Road, Singapore 22, Republic of Singapore
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Abstract

Reid and Laing recently conjectured on the general behaviour of resistive force- free magnetic fields in a slab model following a numerical study. However, the basic properties of resistive force-free magnetic fields had been established previously. We use and extend some results from the previous work to show that the conjecture of Reid and Laing is incorrect. A general analytic treatment of the problem provides the correct physical properties that Reid and Laing were unable to deduce from their numerical solutions. A criticism is also given of the results presented in another numerical study treating cylindrical resistive forcefree magnetic fields, by the same authors.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , August 1980 , pp. 181 - 189
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

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