Magnetofluid dynamics in curved spacetime

Chinmoy Bhattacharjee, Rupam Das, and S. M. Mahajan
Phys. Rev. D 91, 064055 – Published 25 March 2015

Abstract

A grand unified field Mμν is constructed from Maxwell’s field tensor and an appropriately modified flow field, both nonminimally coupled to gravity, to analyze the dynamics of hot charged fluids in curved background space-time. With a suitable 3+1 decomposition, this new formalism of the hot fluid is then applied to investigate the vortical dynamics of the system. Finally, the equilibrium state for plasma with nonminimal coupling through Ricci scalar R to gravity is investigated to derive a double Beltrami equation in curved space-time.

  • Received 27 October 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.91.064055

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Chinmoy Bhattacharjee1,2, Rupam Das3, and S. M. Mahajan1,2

  • 1Institute for Fusion Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
  • 2Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
  • 3Department of Physical and Applied Sciences, Madonna University, Livonia, Michigan 48150, USA

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Vol. 91, Iss. 6 — 15 March 2015

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