ON COWLING'S THEOREM ON THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF SELF-MAINTAINED AXISYMMETRIC HOMOGENEOUS DYNAMOS

DOI10.1073/PNAS.42.3.105MaRDI QIDQ3235673zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors George Backus, S. Chandrasekhar

Publication date 1956

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.42.3.105

zbMATH Keywords

Construction of Matter

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• Beltrami fields with a nonconstant proportionality factor are rare
• Superposability of two axi-symmetric flows under axi-symmetric magnetic fields
• Stability results, almost global generalized Beltrami fields and applications to vortex structures in the Euler equations
• The cowling anti-dynamo theorem
• On the maintenance of magnetic fields by compressible flows and the Nernst–Ettingshausen effect
• On the decay of symmetric dynamo fields
• A description of self-exciting dynamos in Cartesian and cylindrical geometries

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