Dispersive shallow water magnetohydrodynamics

P. J. Dellar  Dispersive shallow water magnetohydrodynamics    Phys. Plasmas 10 581-590

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Abstract

Shallow water magnetohydrodynamics (SWMHD) is a recently proposed model for a thin layer of incompressible, electrically conducting fluid. The velocity and magnetic field are taken to be nearly two dimensional, with approximate magnetohydrostatic balance in the perpendicular direction, leading to a reduced two dimensional model. The SWMHD equations have been found previously to admit unphysical cusp-like singularities in finite amplitude magnetogravity waves. This paper extends the Hamiltonian formulation of SWMHD to construct a dispersively regularized system, analogous to the Green--Naghdi equations of hydrodynamics, that supports smooth solitary waves and cnoidal wavetrains, and shares the potential vorticity conservation properties of SWMHD.

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       P. J. Dellar (2002) Hamiltonian and symmetric hyperbolic structures of shallow water magnetohydrodynamics Phys. Plasmas 9 pp 1130-1136

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BibTeX citation information:

@article{DellarDSWMHD,
author = "P. J. Dellar",
title = "Dispersive shallow water magnetohydrodynamics",
year = "2003",
journal = "Phys. Plasmas",
volume = "10",
pages = "581--590",
URL = "http://link.aip.org/link/?PHPAEN/10/581",
DOI = "doi:10.1063/1.1537690"
}


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