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Title: Energy-Casimir, dynamically accessible, and Lagrangian stability of extended magnetohydrodynamic equilibria

Abstract

The formal stability analysis of Eulerian extended magnetohydrodynamics (XMHD) equilibria is considered within the noncanonical Hamiltonian framework by means of the energy-Casimir variational principle and the dynamically accessible stability method. Specifically, we find explicit sufficient stability conditions for axisymmetric XMHD and Hall MHD (HMHD) equilibria with toroidal flow and for equilibria with arbitrary flow under constrained perturbations. The dynamically accessible, second-order variation of the Hamiltonian, which can potentially provide explicit stability criteria for generic equilibria, is also obtained. Moreover, we examine the Lagrangian stability of the general quasineutral two-fluid model written in terms of MHD-like variables, by finding the action and the Hamiltonian functionals of the linearized dynamics, working within a mixed Lagrangian-Eulerian framework. Upon neglecting electron mass, we derive a HMHD energy principle, and in addition, the perturbed induction equation arises from Hamilton's equations of motion in view of a consistency condition for the relation between the perturbed magnetic potential and the canonical variables.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2]
  1. Univ. of Ioannina (Greece)
  2. Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
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Research Org.:
Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1801010
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1581013
Grant/Contract Number:  
FG05-80ET53088; FG05-80ET-53088
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physics of Plasmas
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 27; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 1070-664X
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; Physics; Hamiltonian mechanics; Hamiltonian field theory; Calculus of variations; Magnetic fields; Hall effect; Lagrangian field theories; Stability theory; Tokamaks; Magnetohydrodynamics; Partial differential equations

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Kaltsas, D. A., Throumoulopoulos, G. N., and Morrison, P. J. Energy-Casimir, dynamically accessible, and Lagrangian stability of extended magnetohydrodynamic equilibria. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1063/1.5125573.
Kaltsas, D. A., Throumoulopoulos, G. N., & Morrison, P. J. Energy-Casimir, dynamically accessible, and Lagrangian stability of extended magnetohydrodynamic equilibria. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5125573
Kaltsas, D. A., Throumoulopoulos, G. N., and Morrison, P. J. Thu . "Energy-Casimir, dynamically accessible, and Lagrangian stability of extended magnetohydrodynamic equilibria". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5125573. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1801010.
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abstractNote = {The formal stability analysis of Eulerian extended magnetohydrodynamics (XMHD) equilibria is considered within the noncanonical Hamiltonian framework by means of the energy-Casimir variational principle and the dynamically accessible stability method. Specifically, we find explicit sufficient stability conditions for axisymmetric XMHD and Hall MHD (HMHD) equilibria with toroidal flow and for equilibria with arbitrary flow under constrained perturbations. The dynamically accessible, second-order variation of the Hamiltonian, which can potentially provide explicit stability criteria for generic equilibria, is also obtained. Moreover, we examine the Lagrangian stability of the general quasineutral two-fluid model written in terms of MHD-like variables, by finding the action and the Hamiltonian functionals of the linearized dynamics, working within a mixed Lagrangian-Eulerian framework. Upon neglecting electron mass, we derive a HMHD energy principle, and in addition, the perturbed induction equation arises from Hamilton's equations of motion in view of a consistency condition for the relation between the perturbed magnetic potential and the canonical variables.},
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year = {Thu Jan 02 00:00:00 EST 2020},
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