Collisionless relaxation of a Lynden-Bell plasma
Plasmas whose Coulomb-collision rates are very small may relax on shorter timescales to non-Maxwellian quasi-equilibria, which, nevertheless, have a universal form, with dependence on initial conditions retained only via an infinite set of Casimir invariants enforcing phase-volume conservation. Thes...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2022
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