magnetic diffusivity

[mag′ned·ik ‚di‚fyü′siv·əd·ē]

(electromagnetism)

A measure of the tendency of a magnetic field to diffuse through a conducting medium at rest; it is equal to the partial derivative of the magnetic field strength with respect to time divided by the Laplacian of the magnetic field, or to the reciprocal of 4πμσ, where μ is the magnetic permeability and σ is the conductivity in electromagnetic units.

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magnetic Reynolds number

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Here u, b describe the flow velocity vector and the magnetic field vector, respectively, p is a scalar pressure, v > 0 is the kinematic viscosity, and [eta] > 0 is the magnetic diffusivity, while [u.sub.0] and [b.sub.0] are the given initial velocity and initial magnetic field, respectively, with [nabla] x [u.sub.0] = [nabla] x [b.sub.0] = 0.

A Regularity Criterion for the 3D Incompressible Magnetohydrodynamics Equations in the Multiplier Spaces

is the magnetic diffusivity and introducing explicitly the z-dependence of these quantities.

The relative effect of the magnetic forces is scaled by the magnetic Prandtl number, which is simply the ratio between the magnetic Reynolds number and the Reynolds number [P.sub.m] = [R.sub.m]/[R.sub.e], but is also the ratio between the kinematic viscosity and the magnetic diffusivity. We give the value of the magnetic Prandtl number in the photosphere in Table 2.

Reconciliating the vertical and horizontal gradients of the sunspot magnetic field