Universal equilibria, phase-space structure of collisionless plasma systems, and turbulence in non-Maxwellian plasmas

<p>A fundamental tenet of thermodynamics is that chaotic systems will relax to maximum-entropy states. In plasmas, the chaos is conventionally provided by interparticle collisions and the universal maximum-entropy equilibrium is a Maxwellian distribution. However, in collisionless plasmas, the...

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Главный автор: Ewart, RJ
Другие авторы: Schekochihin, A
Формат: Диссертация
Язык:English
Опубликовано: 2024
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