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arXiv 2004.08590astro-ph.SR
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基于周期位场的相对磁螺旋度

Relative Magnetic Helicity Based on a Periodic Potential Field

Kai E. Yang, Michael S. Wheatland, Stuart A. Gilchrist

摘要:

磁螺旋度在理想磁流体力学(MHD)下是守恒的,即使在电阻过程下也是准守恒的。磁螺旋度的标准定义不能直接应用于体积中的开放磁场,因为它与规范有关。相反,相对磁螺旋度被广泛使用。我们发现,具有周期性侧边界条件的矩形域中的位磁场的能量小于在所有六个边界上具有固定法向分量的场的能量。为了将这种低能势场应用于相对磁螺旋度的分析,我们引入了一个新的定义,即在磁场中引入周期势场,定义了相对磁螺旋度。我们将此定义应用到一系列的解析解和数值模拟。结果表明,新的规范不变螺旋度与原磁场的相对磁螺旋度的载流部分非常接近。我们还发现,载流螺旋度和相对磁螺旋度的原始和我们定义的相对螺旋度之间的比率表现出不同的行为。新的螺旋度似乎对由于体积中的电流引起的场分量更敏感,这是不稳定性和太阳爆发现象的来源。

英文摘要:

Magnetic helicity is conserved under ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and quasi-conserved even under a resistive process. The standard definition for magnetic helicity cannot be applied directly to an open magnetic field in a volume, because it is gauge-dependent. Instead, the relative magnetic helicity is widely used. We find that the energy of a potential magnetic field in a rectangular domain with periodic lateral boundary conditions is less than that of the field with a fixed normal component on all six boundaries. To make use of this lower energy potential field in the analysis of relative magnetic helicity, we introducing a new definition for magnetic helicity for the magnetic field, which involves the periodic potential field. We apply this definition to a sequence of analytic solutions and a numerical simulation. The results show that our new gauge-invariant helicity is very close to the current-carrying part of the relative magnetic helicity of the original magnetic field. We find also that the ratio between the current-carrying helicity and the relative magnetic helicity for the original and our defined relative helicity show different behavior. It seems that the new helicity is more sensitive to the component of the field due to the electric current in the volume, which is the source for instabilities and solar eruptive phenomena.

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