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A force-free magnetic field is a magnetic field that arises when the plasma pressure is so small, relative to the magnetic pressure, that the plasma pressure may be ignored, and so only the magnetic pressure is considered. For a force free field, the electric current density is either zero or parallel to the magnetic field. The name "force-free" comes from being able to neglect the force from the plasma. ==Basic Equations == Neglecting the effects of gravity, the Navier-Stokes equation for a plasma, in steady state, reads where is the thermal pressure, is the magnetic field and is the electric current. Assuming that the gas pressure is small compared to the magnetic pressure, i.e., then the pressure term can be neglected. Here is the magnetic permeability of the plasma. Therefore . This equation implies that: . e.g. the current density is either zero or parallel to the magnetic field, and where is a spatial-varying function to be determined. Combining this equation with Maxwell's equations: and the vector identity: leads to a pair of equations for and : 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Force-free magnetic field」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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