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Title
Backlund transformations and exact solutions for a nonlinear elliptic equation modelling isothermal magnetostatic atmosphere
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Abstract
The equations of magnetostatic equilibria for a plasma in a gravitational field are investigated analytically. For equilibria with an ignorable spatial coordinate, the equations reduce to a single nonlinear elliptic equation for the magnetic potential u known as the Grad-Shafranov equation. By specifying the arbitrary functions in this equation, a Liouville equation is obtained. Backlund transformations are described and applied to obtain exact solutions for the Liouville equation modelling an isothermal magnetostatic atmosphere, in which the current density J is proportional to the exponential of the magnetic potential and moreover falls off exponentially with distance vertical to the base with an e-folding distance equal to the gravitational scale height.
Language
English
Source (journal)
IMA journal of applied mathematics. - London, 1981, currens
Publication
London : 2000
ISSN
0272-4960 [print]
1464-3634 [online]
DOI
10.1093/IMAMAT/65.1.97
Volume/pages
65 :1 (2000) , p. 97-108
ISI
000088400000004
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UAntwerpen
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