Magnetic-field decay of three interlocked flux rings with zero linking number

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Del Sordo, Fabio ^a,b   Candelaresi, Simon ^a,b   Brandenburg, Axel ^a,b  

^a ALBANOVA UNIVERSITY CENTER   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUX RINGS; HIGHER ORDER; LINKING NUMBERS; MAGNETIC HELICITY; RELATIVE ORIENTATION; TIME DECAY;

MAGNETIC FIELDS;

MAGNETIC FLUX;

EID: 77749298128     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.036401     Document Type: Article

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