Magnetic vortices in nonuniform plasmas
- 1 May 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 30 (5), 1367-1370
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.866251
Abstract
A localized generation of magnetic fields is found to occur in an unmagnetized nonuniform plasma. The process is described in terms of dipole and monopole vortex solutions of the equations governing the electron motion.Keywords
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