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Relative magnetic helicity under turbulent relaxation
Sauli Lindberg, David MacTaggart
Magnetic helicity is a quantity that underpins many theories of magnetic relaxation in electrically conducting fluids, both laminar and turbulent. Although much theoretical effort…
Relative magnetic helicity in multiply connected domains
David MacTaggart, Alberto Valli
Magnetic helicity is a conserved quantity of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) that is related to the topology of the magnetic field, and is widely studied in both laboratory and as…
Magnetic winding: what is it and what is it good for?
Chris Prior, David MacTaggart
Magnetic winding is a fundamental topological quantity that underpins magnetic helicity and measures the entanglement of magnetic field lines. Like magnetic helicity, magnetic wind…
The non-modal onset of the tearing instability
David MacTaggart
We investigate the onset of the classical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) tearing instability (TI) and focus on non-modal (transient) growth rather than the tearing mode. With the help o…