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Nonlinear theta-pinch equilibria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

B. Abraham-Shrauner
B. Abraham-Shrauner
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130
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Abstract

Analytic solutions for cylindrical, rigid-drift equilibria were searched for by checking the invariance of the second-order, nonlinear differential equations of the line density and particle density under one-parameter Lie groups. No invariance was found for the cylindrical screw-pinch for the polytrope index γ ╪ 2 of the pressure equation of state. For the Z-pinch, the differential equation for the line density for arbitrary γ is invariant under one group and reduces by Euler's method to an intractable first-order, nonlinear differential equation. In the case of a θ-pinch, the nonlinear differential equations for the particle density and line density are invariant at least under the translation group. The particle density is found as an implicit function of the radial distance r, involving incomplete beta functions of the γth power of the particle density.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , December 1981 , pp. 419 - 430
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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