Local representation and construction of Beltrami fields
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Publication:2215698
DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2019.02.003zbMATH Open1451.35015arXiv1809.03136OpenAlexW2891720643MaRDI QIDQ2215698FDOQ2215698
Authors: Yanyan Li 
Publication date: 14 December 2020
Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: A Beltrami field is an eigenvector of the curl operator. Beltrami fields describe steady flows in fluid dynamics and force free magnetic fields in plasma turbulence. By application of the Lie-Darboux theorem of differential geoemtry, we prove a local representation theorem for Beltrami fields. We find that, locally, a Beltrami field has a standard form amenable to an Arnold-Beltrami-Childress flow with two of the parameters set to zero. Furthermore, a Beltrami flow admits two local invariants, a coordinate representing the physical plane of the flow, and an angular momentum-like quantity in the direction across the plane. As a consequence of the theorem, we derive a method to construct Beltrami fields with given proportionality factor. This method, based on the solution of the eikonal equation, guarantees the existence of Beltrami fields for any orthogonal coordinate system such that at least two scale factors are equal. We construct several solenoidal and non-solenoidal Beltrami fields with both homogeneous and inhomogeneous proportionality factors.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.03136
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