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A class of exact solutions and physical behaviour of magnetic field lines in plasma column

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Using hodograph and Legendre transformation functions the basic equations are recast in terms of this function, and the conditions which this function should satisfy are stated. Several applications of this method are considered, and the geometry of magnetic field lines is discussed.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Banaras Hindu University, 221 005, Varanasi, India

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Singh, S.N., Tripathi, D.D. A class of exact solutions and physical behaviour of magnetic field lines in plasma column. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Math. Sci.) 98, 81–88 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02880974

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