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Volume 11, Issue 3
Stream Helicity in Toroidal Domains

W. D. Su & Y. Tan

Adv. Appl. Math. Mech., 11 (2019), pp. 619-629.

Published online: 2019-01

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As the analogue of helicity, the concept of stream helicity proposed in 2007 provides a quantitative measurement for entanglement of streamlines for an incompressible flow field or magnetic field lines for a magnetic field. It is found that the helical-wave decomposition can serve as a convenient mathematical physics tool for the calculation of helicity and stream helicity. However, for a multiply connected domain such as a torus under the background of TOKAMAK, the analysis presents some peculiarities due to the nature of multiple-value of some involving potentials. Here we give a full derivation of stream helicity for such a case, together with some detailed analysis. Particularly, it is found that a maximum of absolute helicity under prescribed energy could be attained by a pure potential field.

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76F20, 76F25, 76W05, 82D10, 85A30

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As the analogue of helicity, the concept of stream helicity proposed in 2007 provides a quantitative measurement for entanglement of streamlines for an incompressible flow field or magnetic field lines for a magnetic field. It is found that the helical-wave decomposition can serve as a convenient mathematical physics tool for the calculation of helicity and stream helicity. However, for a multiply connected domain such as a torus under the background of TOKAMAK, the analysis presents some peculiarities due to the nature of multiple-value of some involving potentials. Here we give a full derivation of stream helicity for such a case, together with some detailed analysis. Particularly, it is found that a maximum of absolute helicity under prescribed energy could be attained by a pure potential field.

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TY - JOUR T1 - Stream Helicity in Toroidal Domains AU - Su , W. D. AU - Tan , Y. JO - Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics VL - 3 SP - 619 EP - 629 PY - 2019 DA - 2019/01 SN - 11 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/aamm.2018.s06 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/aamm/12985.html KW - Helicity, magnetic field, streamlines, toroidal domain, helical-wave decomposition. AB -

As the analogue of helicity, the concept of stream helicity proposed in 2007 provides a quantitative measurement for entanglement of streamlines for an incompressible flow field or magnetic field lines for a magnetic field. It is found that the helical-wave decomposition can serve as a convenient mathematical physics tool for the calculation of helicity and stream helicity. However, for a multiply connected domain such as a torus under the background of TOKAMAK, the analysis presents some peculiarities due to the nature of multiple-value of some involving potentials. Here we give a full derivation of stream helicity for such a case, together with some detailed analysis. Particularly, it is found that a maximum of absolute helicity under prescribed energy could be attained by a pure potential field.

W. D. Su & Y. Tan. (2020). Stream Helicity in Toroidal Domains. Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics. 11 (3). 619-629. doi:10.4208/aamm.2018.s06
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