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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Main Authors: Ewart, RJ, Brown, A, Adkins, T, Schekochihin, AA
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2022