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Remarks on statistical mechanics of discrete and continuous media with application to the magnetohydrodynamic dynamo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1997

LEAF TURNER
LEAF TURNER
Affiliation:
Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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Abstract

In this paper commemorating the 60th birthday of David Montgomery, issues tantalizing to me that evolved from my collaborations with him are highlighted: sustainment of the magnetohydrodynamic dynamo, relationships between discrete and continuous models of media, and closures for nonlinear theories of discrete and continuous media. In particular, it is speculated that a tractable statistical model of a magnetohydrodynamic dynamo may arise from a proper formulation of a solenoidal expansion basis for the magnetic and velocity fields in the context of an appropriate closure, such as the eddy-damped quasinormal Markovian model.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 57 , Issue 1 , January 1997 , pp. 59 - 71
Copyright
1997 Cambridge University Press

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