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In plasma physics, a Taylor state is the minimum energy state of a plasma satisfying the constraint of conserving magnetic helicity. == Derivation == Consider a closed, simply-connected, flux-conserving, perfectly conducting surface surrounding a plasma with negligible thermal energy (). Since on . This implies that . As discussed above, the plasma would relax towards a minimum energy state while conserving its magnetic helicity. Since the boundary is perfectly conducting, there cannot be any change in the associated flux. This implies and on . We formulate a variational problem of minimizing the plasma energy while conserving magnetic helicity . The variational problem is . After some algebra this leads to the following constraint for the minimum energy state . 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「Taylor state」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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