Euler potentials for the MHD Kamchatnov-Hopf soliton solution
In the MHD description of plasma phenomena the concept of magnetic helicity turns out to be very useful. We present here an example of introducing Euler potentials into a topological MHD soliton which has non-trivial helicity. The MHD soliton solution (Kamchatnov, 1982) is based on the Hopf inva...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2002-01-01
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Series: | Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics |
Online Access: | http://www.nonlin-processes-geophys.net/9/347/2002/npg-9-347-2002.pdf |