Topological constraints on magnetic relaxation

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Yeates, A R ^a   Hornig, G ^a   Wilmot Smith, A L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIELD LINES; FINAL STATE; FLUX TUBES; HELICITIES; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC SIMULATIONS; REVERSED FIELD PINCH; SOLAR CORONAL LOOPS; TAYLOR STATE; TOPOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS; TOPOLOGICAL DEGREE; TOPOLOGICAL INVARIANTS;

MAGNETIC RELAXATION;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 77955678753     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.085002     Document Type: Article

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