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存在等离子体湍流时的磁重联和发电机

Magnetic reconnection and dynamos in the presence of plasma turbulence

Allen H Boozer

AI总结:

本文研究了湍流等离子体中的磁场演化,利用 Maxwell 方程的精确结果解释了快速磁重联的普遍性,并指出了其对磁场演化和发电机理论的约束,纠正了重联文献中误用二维理论的问题。

摘要:

演化的磁场通常嵌在湍流等离子体中。当主要关注的是与湍流尺度相比的大尺度效应时,对湍流进行平均以获得平均场磁流体力学方程是可取的。平均有效性的一个明显约束是,使用精确演化方程缓慢演化的大尺度量在平均场理论中必须保持缓慢演化。磁螺旋度是这种量的主要例子,在平均场磁流体力学中保持其缓慢演化一直存在争议。本文并不旨在提出湍流等离子体中磁重联的完整理论。其目的是展示 Maxwell 方程的精确结果如何解释快速重联为何如此普遍,以及这些结果对磁场演化(包括发电机)理论施加了什么约束,无论等离子体是否湍流。这些约束在重联文献中常被打破,这些文献深受不适用于三维问题的二维理论影响。

英文摘要:

Evolving magnetic fields are frequently embedded in plasmas that are turbulent. When the primary interest is in effects that are on a large scale compared to that of the turbulence, it is desirable to average over the turbulence to obtain equations for mean-field magnetohydrodynamics. An obvious constraint on the validity of the averaging is that large-scale quantities that evolve slowly using the exact evolution equations must remain slowly evolving in the mean-field theory. Magnetic helicity is the primary example of such a quantity and maintaining its slow evolution has been controversial in mean-field magnetohydrodynamics. A full theory of magnetic reconnection in turbulent plasmas is not the intent of this paper. What is the intent is to show how exact results from Maxwell's equations explain why fast reconnection is so ubiquitous and what constraints these results place on the theory of magnetic field evolution, including dynamos, whether the plasma is turbulent or not. These constraints are commonly broken in the reconnection literature, which has been heavily influenced by two-dimensional theory that is not applicable to three-dimensional problems.

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