On self and mutual winding helicity

DOI10.1016/J.CNSNS.2021.106015MaRDI QIDQ2247015zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Simon Candelaresi, Gunnar Hornig, David MacTaggart, Radostin D. Simitev

Publication date 16 November 2021

Published in Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.08888

zbMATH Keywords

numerical simulationevolving magnetic fieldhelicity decompositionmagnetic line topology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

Abstract: The topological underpinning of magnetic fields connected to a planar boundary is naturally described by field line winding. This observation leads to the definition of winding helicity, which is closely related to the more commonly calculated relative helicity. Winding helicity, however, has several advantages, and we explore some of these in this work. In particular, we show, by splitting the domain into distinct subregions, that winding helicity can be decomposed naturally into "self" and "mutual" components and that these quantities can be calculated, in practice, for magnetic fields with complex geometries and topologies. Further, winding provides a unified topological description from which known expressions for self and mutual helicity can be readily derived and generalized. We illustrate the application of calculating self and mutual winding helicities in a simulation of an evolving magnetic field with non-trivial field line topology.

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