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Ball lightning as a force-free magnetic knot

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dc.contributor.authorFernández-Rañada, Antonio
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-20T18:56:46Z
dc.date.available2023-06-20T18:56:46Z
dc.date.issued2000-11
dc.description© 2000 The American Physical Society. We are grateful to M. V. Berry, F. Blanco, D. Bouwmeester, D. K. Callebaut, A. Ibort, J. M. Montesinos, S. Singer, A. Tiemblo, and T. Tuomi for suggestions and encouragement.
dc.description.abstractThe stability of fireballs in a recent model of ball lightning is studied. It is shown that the balls shine while relaxing in:in almost quiescent expansion, and that three effects contribute to their stability: (i) the formation in each one during a process of Taylor relaxation of a force-free magnetic field, a concept introduced in 1954 in order to explain the existence of large magnetic fields and currents in stable configurations of astrophysical plas,nas; (ii) the so called Alfven conditions in magnetohydrodynamics; and (iii) the approximate conservation of the helicity integral. The force-free fields that appear are termed "knots" because their magnetic lines are closed and linked.
dc.description.departmentDepto. de Estructura de la Materia, Física Térmica y Electrónica
dc.description.facultyFac. de Ciencias Físicas
dc.description.refereedTRUE
dc.description.statuspub
dc.eprint.idhttps://eprints.ucm.es/id/eprint/24952
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dc.identifier.doi10.1103/PhysRevE.62.7181
dc.identifier.issn1063-651X
dc.identifier.officialurlhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.62.7181
dc.identifier.relatedurlhttp://journals.aps.org
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/58974
dc.issue.number5-B
dc.journal.titlePhysical Review E
dc.language.isoeng
dc.page.final7190
dc.page.initial7181
dc.publisherAmerican Physical Soc.
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
dc.subject.cdu537
dc.subject.keywordPlasmas.
dc.subject.ucmFísica (Física)
dc.subject.ucmElectricidad
dc.subject.ucmElectrónica (Física)
dc.subject.unesco22 Física
dc.subject.unesco2202.03 Electricidad
dc.titleBall lightning as a force-free magnetic knot
dc.typejournal article
dc.volume.number62
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