Relaxed plasma equilibria and entropy-related plasma self-organization principles
Plasma Physics
2008-11-17 v1 Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Chaotic Dynamics
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 three-dimensional 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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0810.0825,
title = {Relaxed plasma equilibria and entropy-related plasma self-organization principles},
author = {R. L. Dewar and M. J. Hole and M. McGann and R. Mills and S. R. Hudson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.0825},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
Contribution to the Proceedings of the AMSI/MASCOS Concepts of Entropy and their Applications Workshop, Melbourne, Australia, November-December 2007, to be published in Entropy e-journal http://www.mdpi.org/entropy/