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

DOI10.1073/PNAS.42.3.105zbMATH Open0072.22904OpenAlexW2006975222WikidataQ37614918 ScholiaQ37614918MaRDI QIDQ3235673FDOQ3235673

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

Cited In (7)

• 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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