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The field boundary of two line currents immersed in a streaming plasma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

C. Sozou  and
G. Loizou
C. Sozou
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, Northampton College of Advanced Technology, London
G. Loizou
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, Queen Mary College, London
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Abstract

The cavity in which the magnetic field of two arbitrary line currents is confined by a streaming plasma which is assumed cold and perfectly conducting is investigated by using conformal transformations. When the magnetic field at the boundary is always directed in the same sense the finite breadth of the cavity at infinity depends only on the algebraic sum of the inducing currents and not their position. If the two line currents are of opposite sign the boundary magnetic field may change sign at two ‘pseudo-singularities’.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , August 1966 , pp. 761 - 768
Copyright
© 1966 Cambridge University Press

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