An amended magnetohydrodynamic equation which predicts field-aligned current sheets

DOI10.1007/BF00640003MaRDI QIDQ1094246zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Nikos A. Salingaros

Publication date 1987

Published in Astrophysics and Space Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00640003

zbMATH Keywords

field-aligned current sheetslarge- scale structures in the Earth's magnetospheremagnetohydrodynamic equilibrium

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05)

Review text

A derivation of the physical conditions for magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium from first principles establishes a set of equations which differ slightly from the usual ones. The difference is only relevant in the special case when the current is parallel to the magnetic field. What is noteworthy is that these modified equations predict that the simplest magnetohydrodynamic equilibria can only exist in regions of field-aligned current sheets. This prediction is entirely consistent with the observed large-scale structures in the Earth's magnetosphere.

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