Relaxed plasma equilibria and entropy-related plasma self-organization principles
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2008-11-14
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Dewar, Robert
Hole, Matthew
McGann, Mathew
Mills, Ruth
Hudson, Stuart R
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Molecular Diversity Preservation International
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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.
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Plasma, Fusion, Relaxation, Chaos, Turbulence
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Entropy 10.4 (2008): 621-634
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