Hall magnetohydrodynamics: Conservation laws and Lyapunov stability

Journal Article · Fri May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1987 · Phys. Fluids; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.866246· OSTI ID:6633730

Holm, D D

Hall electric fields produce circulating mass flow in confined ideal-fluid plasmas. The conservation laws, Hamiltonian structure, equilibrium state relations, and Lyapunov stability conditions are presented here for ideal Hall magnetohydrodynamics (HMHD) in two and three dimensions. The approach here is to use the remarkable array of nonlinear conservation laws for HMHD that follow from its Hamiltonian structure in order to construct explicit Lyapunov functionals for the HMHD equilibrium states. In this way, the Lyapunov stability analysis provides classes of HMHD equilibria that are stable and whose linearized initial-value problems are well posed (in the sense of possessing continuous dependence on initial conditions). Several examples are discussed in both two and three dimensions.

• Research Organization: Center for Nonlinear Studies and Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS B284, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545
• OSTI ID: 6633730
• Journal Information: Phys. Fluids; (United States), Vol. 30:5
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
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CONSERVATION LAWS
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MASS TRANSFER
NONLINEAR PROBLEMS
PLASMA
PLASMA DRIFT
THREE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS
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