Abstract
It is shown that for an axially periodic column of magnetofluid driven by an applied axial electric field, the total rate of energy dissipation (Ohmic plus viscous) can be lowered by permitting a helical component with vortical flow in the solution. The principle of minimum energy-dissipation rate suggests that this partially helical state will be preferred to the axisymmetric one that exists for the same parameters. The result is consistent with the repeated appearance of such partially-helical states in several fully three-dimensional numerical computations and is not inconsistent with the data from some confinement experiments.
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