Decay of helical and nonhelical magnetic knots

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

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  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

FIELD DECAYS; FIELD STRUCTURES; FLUX ROPES; HIGHER ORDER; LOCAL STRUCTURE; LOWER BOUNDS; MAGNETIC HELICITY; POWER LAW; REALIZABILITY CONDITIONS; TOPOLOGICAL INVARIANTS;

ASTROPHYSICS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FLUX;

DECAY (ORGANIC);

EID: 79961103145     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.84.016406     Document Type: Article

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