Relaxed Plasma Equilibria and Entropy-Related Plasma Self-Organization Principles
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- 14 November 2008
- Vol. 10 (4) , 621-634
Abstract
The concept of plasma relaxation as a constrained energy minimization is reviewed. Recent work by the authors on generalizing this approach to partially relaxed threedimensional plasma systems in a way consistent with chaos theory is discussed, with a view to clarifying the thermodynamic aspects of the variational approach used. Other entropy-related approaches to finding long-time steady states of turbulent or chaotic plasma systems are also briefly reviewed.Keywords
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