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States of minimum dissipation in magnetohydrodynamics: a review

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

Lee Phillips
Lee Phillips
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Code 6440, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375-5344, USA
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Abstract

The hypothesis that the steady, or statistically steady, states of a magnetofluid can be predicted by minimizing the integral of the total energy dissipation is discussed in relation to theorems in fluid dynamics. A survey is made of the recent literature wherein the hypothesis is used to predict magnetofluid behaviour and some related work. A detailed discussion of boundary conditions is provided, and we close with a brief summary of the current state of research.

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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 56 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Honour of David Montgomery , December 1996 , pp. 531 - 551
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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